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Tag Archives: John Bell Hood
The Intelligencer Takes on Jeff Davis
Editor’s note: Stephen Davis and Bill Hendrick are coming out with their new book, The Atlanta Daily Intelligencer Covers the Civil War (University of Tennessee Press). Here’s a story based on their text. In late September, President Davis was traveling … Continue reading
Western Swing: Day 05
For day five of our video swing of western battlefields with the American Battlefield Trust, we skipped ahead to 1864. This was an exciting opportunity for me to do some interpretation on some battlefields I’d never had the chance to … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Internet, Websites & Blogs, Preservation, USCT
Tagged Army of Tennessee, Battle of Franklin Trust, Brices Cross Roads, Brices Crossroads, Chris Mackowski, Eric Jacobson, Franklin, Garry Adelman, John Bell Hood, Kris White, Missed opportunity at Spring Hill, Parker Hills, Spring Hill, USCT, Western-Swing-2021
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The “Emerging Civil War Series” Series: Let Us Die Like Men
Writing the story of the battle of Franklin in Let Us Die Like Men was one I really wanted to do. Franklin captured my imagination and interest very early on after a visit there with my aunt and uncle sometime … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Emerging Civil War Series
Tagged Battle of Franklin, Bruce Catton, ECWS-Series, Emerging Civil War Series, Eric Jacobson, Franklin, George Wagner, Golden Book of the Civil War, Hood's northwest Georgia campaign, John Bell Hood, Lee White, Let Us Die Like Men, Stephen Hood, William Lee White
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ECW BookChat: A Fine Introduction to Battle by Joe Owen
I was pleased to spend some time recently with a new boom by Joseph Owen, A Fine Introduction to Battle: Hood’s Texas Brigade at the Battle of Eltham’s Landing, May 7, 1862, published by Fox Run Publishing (find out more … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors
Tagged A Fine Introduction to Battle, battle of Eltham's Landing, BookChat, Evander Law, First-Experiences-Under-Fire, Hood's Texas Brigade, Jerome Robertson, Joe Owen, John Bell Hood, Micah Jenkins, Portal to Texas History Database, Sam Hood, Texans in the Civil War
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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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