Beautiful John Hood

Beautiful John Hood (born the June 29th 1831 in Owingsville, Kentucky and dead the August 30th 1879, with the New-Orleans, Louisiana). Wire of a rural doctor with Owinsville in Kentucky, John Bell Hood grows in the central area of Kentucky, close to the town of Sterlin Mount. It is thought that John Bell liked the adventure of the military life due to the influence of his paternal grandfather Lucas Hood, “crusty” a veteran of the Amerindian wars, who had fought under the general “Mad” (insane) Anthony Wayne with the battle of Fallen Timbers and his maternal grandfather James French, a veteran of the war of Independence. Against the wishes of his father, who had invited it to make a medical career, John Bell used the assistance of his uncle, the congressman Richard French, and was registered with the Military academy of West Point in 1849.

beginning of career

He was officer in the US Army, but when débutat the American Civil War, he fought in the rows of the army of the States Confédérés of America by having initially like rank that of captain of Cavalerie.

The Général Hood excelled as commander of a brigade and a division, but had less success on the level of a body and an army. It proved that it was a good ordering with the battle of Sharpburg. It took part in the combat on the peninsula with Seven Pines, during the seven days battles and in second Bull Run (Manassas). After being itself distinguished with Antietam, it was promoted general major, and fought with Fredericksburg and grâvement was grâvement wounded with the right-hand man with Gettysburg, of which one it emputa. It turned over to the combat to Chickamauga, where it was wounded seriously with its left leg. Later, its leg was cut down.

Thereafter, the Hood general was temporarily named general-in-chief. Sent to Atlanta to help Joseph Johnston, it was beaten by the unionistic general W.T.Sherman with the battle of Peachtree Creek, with the battle of Atlanta, the battle of Ezra Church, and the battle of Sonesboro. Hood went back again to Tennessee, where he faced the federal general Schofield with the battle the Franklin one.

1864, the countryside of Nashville

It was beaten and definitively demolishes with Nashville, in Tennessee, by the general " Yankee " George Thomas.

He asked to be retrogressed of the command of the army of Tennesse and to find the rank of general lieutenant. He went to Natchez, the Mississippi. He died in 48 years, in New-Orleans, in Louisiana, of the Yellow fever, on August 30th, 1879. He is buried with the military cemetery of New-Orleans.

Sources

http://ngeorgia.com/people/hood.html
http://www.swcivilwar.com/hood.html

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