Worst of all, the general has been held in contempt for belittling his soldiers as ‘cowards’ who failed to win battles with those attacks. In addition, Hood has been accused of personal failings: stupidity, love-sickness, drunkenness, drug addiction of “attack addiction” that wasted his soldier’s lives. As Stephen points out, for one-hundred and fifty years General Hood has been castigated by Confederate apologists, newspapermen, historians, and novelists for his failures as a soldier and commander: For disputing with his leaders at Gettysburg, for losing Atlanta to Sherman’s Army, for his later defeats at Franklin and Nashville, for ‘destroying’ the Army of Tennessee. Stephen Hood has written a most interesting and compelling book, inspired by a filial duty to his ancestor, Confederate General John Bell Hood. John Bell Hood: The rise, fall, and resurrection of a Confederate General John Bell Hood: The rise, fall, and resurrection of a Confederate GeneralĪ Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table book review by David Lady.
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