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John Bell Hood had no civilian jobs before the Civil War. He departed his home in Mt Sterling KY for West Point when he was 18 years old. After graduating from West Point he was first assigned to duty in northern California, escorting government surveying parties. After a few years he was assigned to the newly formed elite Second Cavalry Regiment on the Texas frontier where he fought Indians. His commanders were Col. Albert Sydney Johnston, Lt Col. Robert E. Lee and Major George Thomas. Hood served with later Civil War notables Earl Van Dorn and William Hardee. He resigned from the US Army at the outbreak of the Civil War and enlisted in the Confederate army and a lieutenant in Montgomery AL in 1861.
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Grant defeated Lee, as planned. Sherman failed to defeat Joe Johnston's Army of Tennessee (later John Hood's), but this army was totally routed later by George Thomas at Nashville. Sherman then went on to cross Georgia and the Carolinas, which definitely shortened the war, finally defeating Joe Johnston in command of another Confederate army.
Yes 11 children were Lydia, who died the same day as the General, and sons John Bell Jr, Duncan and Oswald. The other children, all daughters, were Anna Getrude, twins Marion and Lillian, twins Ida and Odile, and twins Annabel and Ethel.
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis became dissatisfied with General Johnston's inability to stop the Union's advance towards Atlanta. Union General Sherman was making steady progress and Davis believed a more aggressive John Bell Hood would better protect Atlanta. On July 17, 1864 Bell replaced Johnston.
Originally Joseph E. Johnston, until he was replaced by John Hood.
bedford forest or James longstreet... im not sure which but its one of them:) <33robyn Um, no! It was John Bell Hood. He immediately attacked Sherman and destroyed his army. If Johnston had not been replaced the war might have turned out quite differently.
John Bell Hood - a bad appointment that led to disaster in the Battle Of Nashville, where his army was driven off in a rout, and disintegrated.
On July 17, 1864 President Jefferson Davis replaced General Joseph Johnston with General John Hood. US General William Sherman would now face General Bell and his name was familiar to Sherman. He asked one of Hood's classmates at West Point, General Schofield, about the abilities of Hood. Schofield's answer was not pleasing to Sherman in that the response was that Hood was a man of reckless courage.
John Bell Hood was born on June 1, 1831.
The side that John Bell Hood fought for was the Confederacy.
John Bell Hood died on August 30, 1879 at the age of 48.
In mid-July of 1864, Union General William Sherman was headquartered outside of Atlanta. There a Union spy informed him that Confederate General Joseph Johnston was being replaced with General John Bell Hood. Sherman knew little about Hood, except that he lost a leg at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Hood was far more aggressive
John Bell Hood. Jefferson Davis had fired Joe Johnston because his long tactical retreat, however brilliant, did not look like the Confederate thing to do. So he replaced him with this gung-ho character Hood, who led his army to disaster.