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John Bell Hood (June 1 [ 2] or June 29, [ 3] 1831 – August 30, 1879) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War. Hood's impetuosity led to high losses among his troops as he moved up in rank. Bruce Catton wrote that "the decision to replace Johnston with Hood was probably the single largest mistake that either government made ...
Franklin–Nashville campaign. Union victory; end of large-scale fighting in the Western Theater. The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, [ 5][ 6] in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the ...
The Battle of Nashville was a two-day battle in the Franklin-Nashville Campaign [ 3][ 4] that represented the end of large-scale fighting west of the coastal states in the American Civil War. It was fought at Nashville, Tennessee, on December 15–16, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Tennessee under Lieutenant General John Bell Hood and ...
The Battle of Franklin was fought on November 30, 1864, in Franklin, Tennessee, as part of the Franklin–Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. It was one of the worst disasters of the war for the Confederate States Army. Confederate Lieutenant General John Bell Hood 's Army of Tennessee conducted numerous frontal assaults against ...
Organization. Gen. John Bell Hood. Texas Brigade, winter of 1861–62. The Texas Brigade was organized on October 22, 1861, primarily through the efforts of John Allen Wilcox, afterwards a member of congress from Texas, who remained as the brigade's political patron until his death in 1864. The brigade was initially and briefly under the ...
Fort Cavazos was previously named after Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood. Cavazos, who died in 2017 at 78, grew up on a cattle ranch in Kingsville, Texas, and was of Mexican American heritage.
Lieutenant John Bell Hood, a future Confederate general left Fort Mason on July 5 of 1857 to patrol the desert with twenty-five men of the 2nd Cavalry. It was extremely hot but the soldiers continued on to the Concho River where they discovered tracks heading towards Mexico left by a war party. The trail led straight through a wasteland but ...
John Bell (February 18, 1796 – September 10, 1869) was an American politician, attorney, and planter who was a candidate for President of the United States in the election of 1860. One of Tennessee 's most prominent antebellum politicians, [ 1] Bell served in the House of Representatives from 1827 to 1841, and in the Senate from 1847 to 1859.