The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-09-11
GENERAL j. b. HOOD.
Biographical Sketch Of the Late La
! mented Gallant Confederate
General.
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and graduated at West Point II
1853. He served in the Secont
dragons, a Lieutenant of compa
ny, in that superb command, ans
was engaged in defending this Texa
frontier against the Indians. In al
engagement with the Lipan and Co
manche Indians, July 90, 1857, h
was severely wounded.
| On the 10th of April, 1861, he re
signed his commission in the Uni
ted States army and Immediately en-
tered the military service of the Con
federate States as Colonel of tn
Fourth Texas infantry regiment
which composed part of the bri
gade under the command of Genel a
T. i. Wigfall, in the army of Vir
ginia, then operating on the lines o
the Potomac. He was Colonel com
mandlng the Fourth Texas wher
General Johnston, in the winter oi
1861 -'62, abandoned his lines front
ing on the Potomac and marched
his army south of theRappahannock
In the commencement of this
campaign Col. Hood was promoted
to the rank of Brigadier General,
and was assigned to the command
of the Texas Brigade, heretofore
commanded by General Wigfall, and
in that capacity achieved for him
self a distinguished reputation in
the operations of the army in the
Peninsula, and in the battle of Sew
en- Pines, on the 30th of MAY, 1862,
and in the seven days engagements
in front of Richmond Immediately
thereafter. General Hoods soldier
ly qualities arrested the attention
of General Lee, and he was promo
ted to the rank of Major General,
and assigned to the command of a
division of infantry composed In
part of his Texas brigade, in Long
streets corps. AS division com
mander, in the battles of second
Bull Run, Sharpsburg and Freder-
icksburg, he won the admiration OF
the Army OF Northern Virginia, and
demonstrated that he was fully en-
titled to the promotion which he
gained in the Chickahominy cam
paign.
General Lee marched the corps OF
Longstreet, in March, 1868, to Pc
tersburg, and in April, 1868, by a
rapid movement, the divisions OF
Pickett, French and Hood, crossed
the Beachwater river at Franklin,
and to the surprise of General Jno.
A. Dix, commanding the Federal
troops in that department, appeared
before Suffolk. This movement oil
Longstreet's corps was but a dem
onstration in force to engage the at
tention Of the enemy maintaining E
the lines on the Nansemond river,
and the region of country about
Elizabeth City, in North Carolina
to enable the Commissary Depart
ment to gather supplies and stores
in the Rich Roanoke valley and adj
jacent country, so that the army OF
General Lee might be supplied, in
part, for the summer campaign.
Longstreet's corps was engaged in
this expedition until about the time
of the engagement at Cbancellors-
vile.
In the campaign that eliminated
in the battle of Gettysburg, ID which
Gen. Hood lost an arm on the sec
ond day of that engagement, he
made for himself a historic name.
as one of the division commanders
Of the army of Northern Virginia,
that will live for all time in the his
tory that recounts the endurance,
courage and gallantry Of the sol
diers who made Lee famous wher-
ever the English language is spo-
ken or an intelligent civilization
prevails.
When Longstreet's corps was or
dered from Virginia to reinforca.the
army of Gen. Bragg, in Northern
Georgia, in September, 1868, Gen.
Hood had recovered from his wound
received at Gettysburg, and accom-
panied that corps, in command of
his division, and in the battle of
Chickamauga lost a leg.
When Gen. Hood recovered from
the wound received at Chicka-
mauga, and reported for atty, he was
promoted to the rank of Lieutenant
General, and assigned to the COM
mand of a corps of the army of Ten
nessee, composed of the divisions
of Hindmau, Cleburne and Walk
er, then encamped about Dalton,
and under the comm and of Gen.
Joseph E. Johnston.
Gen. Sherman, about the first OF
May, 1864, opened the campaign in
Georgia by marching the
main body of the Federal army TO
ward Snake Creek Gap, on it's road
to Resaca, the movement being cur
tanned by Rocky Face Mountain.
and was met about a mile on the
Snake Creek Gap road from Resaca
by Loring's division of Polk's corps,
and "held in check long enough TO
enable Hardee's and Hoods corps,
then just arriving, to occupy their
ground undisturbed." The cam
paign thenceforward was a contin-
ued and systematic series Of lines
Of rife pits and rude and hastily
earth works, occupied
by Johnston's army. until the flank
ing movements OF Sherman's army
rendered 1t impossible to longer
hold them, and to retreat was a ne
cessity without any great pitched
battle, but with frequent combats,
with an occasional partial engage
ment, until Gen. Johnston was re
lieved of his command, on the 18th
Of July, 1864, in front OF Atlanta.
On the 18th Of July, 1864, Gen.
Hood assumed command OF the
Army and Department Of Tennes-
see, having been commissioned to
the Temporary rank of General,
under a then recent act of the Con
federate Congress. On the goth OF
July Hood delivered a battle TO the
Federal troops on Peachtree creek,
ia which his troops were worsted.
On the night of the 2lst Of july he
retrea ted from his lines fronting on
creek, and marched bis
troops into the intrenchments at
Atlanta, and on the following day
be marched Hardee's and Cheat
hams corps TO the east OF Atlanta
md engaged the Federal troops un-
der Gen, MCPHERSON in a pitched