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In a phrase - too Confederate for his own good.
He was full of the Cavalier spirit, all chivalry and mad-brave charges, as Jefferson Davis wanted to see.
His appointment to command the Army of Tennessee, in place of the shrewd and steady Joe Johnston was a mistake. Hood led the Army on a disastrous campaign ending in a complete rout by George Thomas at Nashville. This revealed that he was suited to subordinate command, rather than the top job.
In Confederate mythology, not always rational, he is still revered as a hero. His widow said "I would rather be the widow of John Hood than the wife of any man alive."
A Union General, John Scofield, described his West Point classmate, John Bell Hood as being recklessly courageous.
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