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19 de sept. de 2022 · On August 4, 1864 Frobel was ordered by the War Department to report to Gen. John B. Hood, commanding the Confederate army defending Atlanta. The month before, Richmond had already transferred one of Lee’s leading engineers, Maj. Gen. Martin L. Smith, to become chief engineer of Hood’s army. It is not known whether Hood, given Frobel’s ...
19 de jul. de 2013 · An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most successful—and most criticized—generals. Winner of the 2014 Albert Castel Book Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman Award John Bell Hood died at forty-eight after a brief illness in August 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs, Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies.
17 de jul. de 2020 · The day is July 17, 1864, Confederate President Jefferson Davis replaces General Joseph Johnston with John Bell Hood as commander of the Army of Tennessee. Davis, impatient with Johnston’s defensive strategy in the Atlanta campaign, felt that Hood stood a better chance of saving Atlanta from the forces of Union General William T. Sherman.
Davidson County, TN | Dec 15 - 16, 1864. Confederate General John Bell Hood participated in some of the most brutal and iconic actions of the Civil War, including the breakthrough at Gaines’ Mill, the hellacious fighting at the Cornfield at Antietam, and the drive to Snodgrass Hill at Chickamauga. Hood had also served under some of the most ...
John Bell Hood ( Owingsville, juni 1831 - New Orleans, 30 augustus 1879) was tijdens de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog een generaal in het leger van de Geconfedereerde Staten van Amerika . Hood werd geboren in de staat Kentucky als zoon van een slavenhouder en studeerde in 1853 af aan de militaire academie van West Point.
18 de oct. de 2011 · Fact #6: Led by John Bell Hood, the famed Texas Brigade achieved its first great feat of combat arms at Gaines' Mill Considered by many to be the toughest fighting brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia, the Texas Brigade (comprised of the 1st TX, 4th TX, 5th TX, 18th GA, and Hampton's South Carolina Legion at Gaines' Mill) led the charge that broke the Union line atop the Watt House plateau.
6 de jul. de 2017 · Sam Hood is a relative of General Hood and the author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall and Resurrection of a Confederate General (Savas Beatie, 2013). He is transcribing the newly discovered letters for The Lost Papers of John Bell Hood, set for release in 2014. Originally published in the September 2013 issue of America’s Civil War.
