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Tag Archives: John Bell Hood
Re-evaluating Ezra Carman, Pt. 2: Georgians in the East Woods
ECW welcomes back Chris Bryan (Part 1 of Re-evaluating Ezra Carman can be read here.) During Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood’s counterattack at Antietam, the 4th Alabama became increasingly detached from its brigade by fences while it advanced along the … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Primary Sources
Tagged 21st Georgia, 28th Georgia, 4th Alabama, 5th Texas, Alfred Colquitt, Antietam, Chris Bryan, East Woods, Ezra Carman, John Bell Hood
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Conduct Unbecoming an Officer: John B. Hood’s Efforts to Cover Up the Bad News From his Tennessee Campaign
EDITOR’S NOTE: ECWer Stephen Davis has had published the second volume of his study of Confederate General John B. Hood’s generalship in 1864. This piece is from his second volume, released this past autumn by Mercer University Press. After the … Continue reading
Please—no more Jonesboropia!
In my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, December 2019), I coin a word, Jonesboropia, to refer to the persistent myth that the battle of Jonesboro, fought south of Atlanta on … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Books & Authors, Campaigns, Western Theater
Tagged Atlanta Campaign, Carter Center, Jacob Cox, John Bell Hood, Jonesboro, Macon & Western Railroad, Mount Gilead Church, Oliver Otis Howard, Rough and Ready, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Wilbur Kurtz, William Hardee, William T. Sherman
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A Gem from the Gilder Lehrman
A century and a half after the war, we’re still finding cool stuff. I’ll give an example from my new book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer, 2019). In my research I was perusing Kirk … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Emerging Civil War, Western Theater
Tagged A. P. Stewart, Alinda Borell, Atlanta Campaign, Gilder Lehrman Institute, James Chesnut, Jefferson Davis, John Bell Hood, Krik Denkler, Mary Chesnut, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Voices of the Civil War: Atlanta
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The author speaks out on his work: Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood
Every Civil War historian hopes that her/his work will add a few nuggets to the literature. Here’s a candidate from my recent book, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood (Mercer University Press, 2019). In Stephen M. … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Campaigns, Newspapers, Personalities, Western Theater
Tagged Advance and Retreat, Atlanta Campaign, Howard-Tilton Library, John Bell Hood, Joseph E. Johnston, Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood, New Orleans, New Orleans Times, Stephen Hood, Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood, Tulane UNiversity
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Forgetting Nashville
Among the twenty-five bloodiest battles of the American Civil War, Nashville—fought December 15-16, 1864—stands as among the most “forgotten.” Only two major works, by Stanley F. Horn and James Lee McDonough, have chronicled the engagement. The reasons for this are … Continue reading
Posted in Battles, Memory
Tagged Battle of Nashville, George H. Thomas, John Bell Hood, USCT
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Yellow Fever and Reconciliation
Among the historical memories that still haunt New Orleans are those of the Yellow Fever outbreaks of the 1800s. As a descendant of Irishmen, who suffered disproportionately from the disease, I heard my grandmother speak of the last few outbreaks … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Reconstruction
Tagged Beauregard, illness, John Bell Hood, New Orleans, Reconstruction, yellow fever
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Change is in the wind
Army of Tennessee, General Orders No. 1: July 18, 1864. Soldiers of the Army of Tennessee: “Strap in. Things are going to change!” Signed, Gen. John B. Hood, Commanding. With those stirring words, the burden of command of the Confederacy’s … Continue reading
Stout Hearts: Attempting to Feed Both Civilians and Soldiers
ECW welcomes Katie Brown to share Part 2 of her research. (Find Part 1 here) “The provision blockade is nothing; we shall have wheat, corn, and beef beyond measure…,” Sergeant S.R. Cockrill of Tennessee assured a friend in June 1861, … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Common Soldier
Tagged Benjamin Butler, civilians, food, Hunger-Civil-War, John Bell Hood, Katie Brown, morale, rations, starvation
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Friendly Rivalries at the Brandy Station Grand Review
Rivalries between military branches are well-known (Army vs. Navy, anyone?). Throughout the Civil War, jabs between infantrymen and cavalrymen of the same armies can be found in letters, diaries, and postwar accounts of soldiers. On June 8, 1863, at the … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Cavalry, Personalities
Tagged Brandy Station, Fitzhugh Lee, J.E.B. Stuart, John Bell Hood, rivalry, Robert E. Lee
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