Jeffrey William Hunt is Director of the Texas Military Forces Museum, the official museum of the Texas National Guard in Austin, Texas and an adjunct professor of History at Austin Community College, where he has taught since 1988. He had also served for many years as the Curator of Collections and Director of the Living History Program at the Admiral Nimitz National Museum of the Pacific War in Fredericksburg, Texas. Jeff holds a Bachelors Degree in Government and a Masters Degree in History, both from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of several books on the Civil War, including the critically acclaimed and award-winning Meade and Lee After Gettysburg: The Forgotten Final Stage of the Gettysburg Campaign, from Falling Waters to Culpeper Court House, July 14-31, 1863 as well as Meade and Lee at Bristoe Station: The Problems of Command and Strategy after Gettysburg, from Brandy Station to the Buckland Races, August 1 to October 31, 1863.
A good, fast paced treatment, this will prove worthwhile reading for anyone interested in the Civil War. -- The NYMAS Review A meticulously presented and impressively informative work of seminal scholarship. -- Midwest Book Review Hunt's superb study of the Rappahannock Station operations from October to November 1863--indeed his whole body of work so far--fulfills all the important functions of a classic Civil War campaign study. Readers will walk away from Meade and Lee at Rappahannock Station with a renewed appreciation for the challenges Civil War commanders operated under in the field. -- Emerging Civil War