"Into Tennessee and Failure: John Bell Hood" Topic
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Tango01 | 13 May 2020 9:12 p.m. PST |
"INTO TENNESSEE AND FAILURE is the second volume of Stephen Davis's study of John Bell Hood's generalship in 1864. Here Davis picks up the story in September-October 1864, tracing Hood and his army into North Georgia and Alabama. Entering Tennessee in late November, Hood's forces failed to trap Union Maj. Gen. John Schofield's infantry at Spring Hill. On November 30, Hood ordered his soldiers to attack Schofield's fortified lines at Franklin. A tragic and bloody repulse followed. Schofield escaped to Nashville, joining Maj. Gen. George Thomas's forces. With few options left, Hood approached Nashville and had his troops dig in. Though his army was half the size of Thomas's 50,000, Hood hoped to win a defensive victory when Thomas attacked him. Instead, in the battle of Nashville, December 15-16, the Army of Tennessee was routed from the field. By the time it ended its retreat in North Mississippi, Confederate authorities were ready to relieve Hood from command. Hood resigned in January 1865."
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Extrabio1947 | 14 May 2020 6:15 a.m. PST |
You may talk about your Beauregard and sing of Bobby Lee But the gallant Hood of Texas, he played hell in Tennessee |
Tango01 | 14 May 2020 12:38 p.m. PST |
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