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Acknowledgments This book has been a long time coming. What began as a Web page on the Tullahoma campaign has evolved into a full-fledged discussion of how Army of the Cumberland veterans remembered their involvement in the emancipation process. The last few years of researching and writing on this topic have led me on a fascinating journey. Like other authors, I’ve had help at every step of the way. Middle Tennessee State University provided a noninstructional assignment and a research grant. Virgil Statom, my graduate student assistant for one semester , researched Joseph Warren Keifer. My conversations with him on the subject were, as always with Virgil, a discussion between colleagues rather than an interchange between student and professor.The anonymous readers for The University of Alabama Press provided excellent and detailed comments, and were nicer to me than they should have been. As I was beginning to work through the copyeditor’s comments, I had a wonderful and encouraging set of conversations with Chandra Manning (I had asked her to be a speaker at an NEH workshop that I organized). If many hands did not make light work, they certainly made the job pleasant, rewarding, and more accurate. I must also thank my partner in life, Deborah. She didn’t type any of the manuscript, or copyedit it, or do any of those things that wives of professors used to do. She did read chapter drafts, however, and offered the kind of commentary one would expect from the former editor of a literary magazine. In any case, she is simply relieved that the thing is now done. So am I. Now we can celebrate. Please note that any words italicized within a quotation are rendered this way because the author of the quote intended it. I have added no emphasis to any quotation. The Good Men Who Won the War ...

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