Advance And Retreat Personal Experiences In The United States And Confederate States Armies

Author : John Bell Hood
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Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by John Bell Hood and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military autobiography of the Confederacy's most controversial general, from his 1853 graduation from West Point and subsequent duty in California and Texas (mainly on exploratory missions). Born a southern aristocrat, Hood unswervingly supported the Confederacy but was widely viewed as reckless with his commands. Hood lost an arm at Gettysburg, a leg at Chickamauga and Atlanta to Sherman.

Author : JOHN BELL. HOOD
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ISBN 13 : 9781033097595
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book ADVANCE AND RETREAT written by JOHN BELL. HOOD and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : General John Bell Hood
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 9780306805349
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance And Retreat written by General John Bell Hood and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1993-08-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Bell Hood entered into the services of the Confederate Army, he was 29 years old, a handsome man and courageous soldier, loyal to the ideal of Confederate Independence and eager to fight for it. He led his men bravely into the battles of Second Manassas, Gaines's Mill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. He rose fast, attaining the temporary rank of full general, only to fall faster. Hood emerged from the war with his left arm shattered and uselss, his right leg missing, his face aged far beyond his 33 years, and with his military reputation in disgrace. Blamed by contemporaries for contributing to the defeat of his beloved Confederacy, Hood struggled to refute their accusations. His most vehement critic, General Johnston, charged Hood with insubordination while serving under him and, after succeeding him in command, of recklessly leading Confederate troops to their “slaughter” and “useless butchery.” Sherman, too, in his Memoirs,took a harsh view of Hood. Born of controversy, Advance and Retreat is of course a highly controversial book. It is also full of invaluable information and insights into the retreat from Dalton in early 1864, the fighting around Atlanta, and the disastrous Tennessee Campaign in winter of that year. Far from being a careful, sober, objective account, this book is the passionate, bitter attempt of a soldier to rebut history's judgment of himself as general and man.

Author : Lt.-General John Bell Hood
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251418
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance And Retreat: Personal Experiences In The United States And Confederate States Armies [Illustrated Edition] written by Lt.-General John Bell Hood and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Civil War Map and Illustrations Pack – 224 battle plans, campaign maps and detailed analyses of actions spanning the entire period of hostilities. “When John Bell Hood entered into the services of the Confederate Army, he was 29 years old, a handsome man and courageous soldier, loyal to the ideal of Confederate Independence and eager to fight for it. He led his men bravely into the battles of Second Manassas, Gaines’s Mill, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Chickamauga. He rose fast, attaining the temporary rank of full general, only to fall faster. Hood emerged from the war with his left arm shattered and useless, his right leg missing, his face aged far beyond his 33 years, and with his military reputation in disgrace. Blamed by contemporaries for contributing to the defeat of his beloved Confederacy, Hood struggled to refute their accusations. His most vehement critic, General Johnston, charged Hood with insubordination while serving under him and, after succeeding him in command, of recklessly leading Confederate troops to their “slaughter” and “useless butchery.” Sherman, too, in his Memoirs, took a harsh view of Hood. Born of controversy, Advance and Retreat is of course a highly controversial book. It is also full of invaluable information and insights into the retreat from Dalton in early 1864, the fighting around Atlanta, and the disastrous Tennessee Campaign in winter of that year. Far from being a careful, sober, objective account, this book is the passionate, bitter attempt of a soldier to rebut history’s judgment of himself as general and man.”-Print ed.

Author : John Bell Hood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by John Bell Hood and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Bell Hood
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781494450700
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies written by John Bell Hood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Bell Hood was one of the most notorious Confederate generals of the Civil War, arguably the best division commander in the Army of Northern Virginia and also arguably the worst overall army commander of the Confederacy. The big Texan and his brigade were crucial at Antietam, and he fought hard and was injured at Gettysburg and Chickamauga, but when he took over the Army of Tennessee in 1864, he made disastrous decisions that wrecked the army at Franklin and Nashville. Hood died in 1879, fairly shortly after the war, but his generalship was so controversial that he felt compelled to defend it in a hastily written memoirs. In addition to talking about his own experiences, it rebuts General Joseph E. Johnston's writings, as the two men traded blame over the Atlanta campaign against Union general William Tecumseh Sherman.

Author : John Bell Hood
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333476465
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by John Bell Hood and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies Infantry. I sailed from New York in November of that year to join my regiment in California, Via Panama. On my arrival at San Francisco - at that time a small city built upon sandhills and ats, and distinguished for its foggy atmosphere I, together with one of my classmates, deemed it but proper that Officers of the United States Army should go to the hotel in a carriage; but to our astonishment, on hailing a driver, we found the charge to be twenty dollars in gold. This aspect of affairs - our pay being only about Sixty dollars a month compelled us to hold consultation with our brother officers and to adopt the only alternative: to proceed on foot to what ever quarters we desired to occupy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."

Author : John Bell Hood
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : J. B. Hood
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781494150174
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by J. B. Hood and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1880 Edition.

Author : John Bell Hood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
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Download or read book Advance and Retreat written by John Bell Hood and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: