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John Bell Hood
Civil War Encyclopedia >> People - Confederate Military
| May 7, 1862 | Battle of West Point
Battle of Eltham's Landing General William B. Franklin [US] skirmishes with General John Bell Hood [CS] |
Virginia |
| William B. Franklin | ||
| Peninsula Campaign | ||
| June 27, 1862 | Battle of Gaines Mill [US]
Battle of First Cold Harbor [CS] Battle of the Chickahominy [Alternate] John Bell Hood [CS] and George Pickett [CS] breakthrough Fitz John Porter's [US] line, forcing Union troops south of the Chickahominy River and severing McClellan's supply line to Eltham's Landing (White House, West Point) |
Virginia |
| Seven Days Retreat | ||
| Battle of Gaines Mill | ||
| Daniel Harvey Hill | ||
| A. P. Hill | ||
| Fitz-John Porter | ||
| Gouverneur K. Warren | ||
| George Pickett | ||
| George Meade | ||
| John Reynolds | ||
| July 1, 1863 July 3, 1863 |
Battle of Gettysburg
General Robert E. Lee [CS] advances into Pennsylvania where he meets George Meade [US]. First battling north of the city, by the second day Union forces had retreated south, forming a strong line as men arrived almost continuously. On the third day, the infamous Pickett's Charge marked the end of the Confederates hope for a victory The bloodiest three days in American history |
Pennsylvania |
| Bloodiest Civil War battles | ||
| Robert E. Lee | ||
| James Longstreet | ||
| George Meade | ||
| Army of Northern Virginia | ||
| Army of the Potomac | ||
| J. E. B. Stuart | ||
| Lafayette McLaws | ||
| Winfield Scott Hancock | ||
| George Armstrong Custer | ||
| Battle of Gettysburg | ||
| Richard Ewell | ||
| George Pickett | ||
| John Reynolds | ||
| The Gettysburg Campaign | ||
| Early action at Herbst Woods | ||
| James Archer | ||
| George Armstrong Custer | ||
| Jubal Anderson Early | ||
| September 19, 1863 September 20, 1863 |
Battle of Chickamauga
General Braxton Bragg [CS] tries to split General William Rosecrans [US] forces as they try to return to the safety of Chattanooga. A second day breakthrough at the Brotherton Cabin forces the federals into a retreat, halted only by the Rock of Chickamauga, General George Thomas on Snodgrass Hill The bloodiest two days in American history cost the Federals 1,657 dead, 9,756 wounded, and 4,757 missing for a total of 16,170 casualties out of 58,000 troops. The Confederate losses were 2,312 dead, 14,674 wounded and 1,468 for a total of 18,545 out of 66,000 troops. |
Georgia |
| Gordon Granger | ||
| Bloodiest Civil War battles | ||
| William S. Rosecrans | ||
| Braxton Bragg | ||
| George Thomas | ||
| Army of the Cumberland | ||
| Philip Sheridan | ||
| Nathan Bedford Forrest | ||
| Lafayette McLaws | ||
| Battle of Chickamauga | ||
| James Garfield | ||
| Leonidas Polk | ||
| Daniel Harvey Hill | ||
| James Longstreet | ||
| Chickamauga Campaign | ||
| May 25, 1864 | Battle of New Hope Church
"Fighting Joe" Hooker runs into John Bell Hood's entrenched line in Paulding County |
Georgia |
| Joseph Hooker | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| Joseph E. Johnston | ||
| June 22, 1864 | Battle of Kolb's Farm
To prevent Joe Hooker [US] and John Schofield [US] from outflanking the Confederate Army, General John Bell Hood [CS] attacks, without orders. |
Georgia |
| Joseph Hooker | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| July 17, 1864 | General Joseph E. Johnston relieved of command of the Army of Tennessee. John Bell Hood replaces him. | Georgia |
| Joseph E. Johnston | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| July 20, 1864 | Battle of Peachtree Creek
John Bell Hood [CS] attacks George Thomas after he crosses Peachtree Creek. |
Georgia |
| George Thomas | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| August 30, 1864 | Sherman's army descends in force south of Atlanta. Hood responds by sending corps under Patrick Cleburne and Stephen Lee to defend the Macon and Western Railroad | Georgia |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
| Patrick Cleburne | ||
| August 31, 1864 September 1, 1864 |
Battle of Jonesboro (Jonesborough), Georgia
In the final battle of the Atlanta Campaign, General William Hardee [CS] attacks O. O. Howard's [US] Army of the Tennessee west of the city of Jonesboro. North of the battle John Schofield cut the Macon and Western at Rough and Ready and Hood's Army was in jeopardy. The battle was joined the second day by large numbers of Union troops. Hardee withdraws at nightfall to join Hood at Lovejoy Station |
Georgia |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
| Atlanta Campaign | ||
| September 25, 1864 | Jefferson Davis visits General John Bell Hood at Palmetto. Hood asks permission to relieve William Hardee. | |
| Jefferson Davis | ||
| William Hardee | ||
| October 4, 1864 | Moving north along the Western and Atlantic Railroad in an attempt to sever Sherman's supply line, John Bell Hood attacks blockhouses and encampments at Acworth and Moon's Station. | |
| Western and Atlantic Railroad | ||
| October 5, 1864 | Battle of Allatoona Pass
Confederates under Samuel French attack entrenched Federals under John Corse protecting the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Union: 2000 engaged, 142 (k), 352 (w), 212 (m), 706 (c). Confederate: 2000 engaged, 122 (k), 443 (w), 234 (m), 799 (c) |
Georgia |
| Battle of Allatoona Pass | ||
| Western and Atlantic Railroad | ||
| October 26, 1864 | Battle of Decatur, Alabama | Alabama |
| Nashville Campaign | ||
| October 28, 1864 | William Tecumseh Sherman, in Gaylesville, AL, decides to return to his field headquarters in Kingston, GA. rather than pursue John Bell Hood into Alabama. | Alabama Georgia |
| William Tecumseh Sherman | ||
| November 30, 1864 | Battle of Franklin | Tennessee |
| Nashville Campaign | ||
| December 15, 1864 December 16, 1864 |
Battle of Nashville | Tennessee |
| George Thomas | ||
| Nashville Campaign |
John Bell Hood
John Bell Hood's first military assignment of the Civil War came to him from an old commander - Hood probably thought of him as a friend - Robert E. Lee. General Lee assigned him to join John Magruder's enthusiastically named Army of the Peninsula, protecting Richmond from any incursions from Fort Monroe. Magruder made Lieutenant Hood a captain, major and lieutenant colonel in quick succession. Although he and his men from Texas were reassigned north, they returned to Virginia's lower peninsula a few months later.
As Union troops gained ground in the Peninsula Campaign, George McClellan leapfrogged a corps to West Point. To protect both the Confederate army and supply wagons withdrawing from Williamsburg Hood was ordered to brush back the Yankees at West Point. He ran into federal pickets at Eltham's Landing and attacked a reinforced skirmish line protecting the harbor. As the battle heated up Hood's commander, William Whiting, ordered artillery to advance in support of the brigade but the battery was out of range. Hood, however, was not out of range of federal gunboats on the York River and these forced him to withdraw. The wagon train safely withdrew because of Hood's attack.
Hood's brigade was assembled about 2 miles east of the depot at Fair Oaks. When Daniel Harvey Hill [CS] pushed back the Yankees along the Williamsburg Pike to the crossing at Seven Pines, Whiting advanced Hood and others to support the Confederate left flank and attack a small garrison of Yankees in the Fair Oaks depot. Hood, on the right of the line advanced past the depot towards Seven Pines, almost completely missing the battle that saw Joe Johnston seriously wounded.
Stonewall Jackson requested reinforcements before the Seven Days Battle and Lee reassigned Hood to the Army of the Shenandoah. Hood's first action during the Union retreat was at the Battle of Gaines Mill. Near the end of the battle Lee rode up to Whitings Division and asked for Hood. Lee had a special assignment for the brigadier general who had served with him in Texas. Moving quickly across an open meadow and crossing Boatswains Swamp (a creek), Hood's men charged the forward skirmish line with bayonets, drove them back, then blasted a hole in Fitz-John Porter's main line with their muskets, relieving pressure on A. P. Hill's men and initiating a general advance of Confederate troops across the stream. Porter, protecting McClellan's only supply line to his base at White House, was force to withdraw, putting the entire Army of the Potomac at risk.
Hood returned to the Shenandoah Valley with Jackson when Lee drove the Yankees from the Peninsula, but not for long. He was recalled and assigned to Longstreet in August, 1862 and his troop strength increased. At Second Manassas Hood held the center of the Confederate line. When Jackson, on Hood's left, came under attack, Lee ordered Hood to probe the federal lines for weakness. Never one to "probe," Hood advanced a reinforced skirmish line and ordered Evander Law to attack an open artillery battery. Only darkness stopped Hood's advance.
The next morning Hood was ordered to remain in position. As federals attacked Jackson along the unfinished railroad grade he could only watch. Then came orders to advance, rolling to his left to hit the flank of the 4 federal corps (Reno, Hooker, Kearny, McDowell) attacking Jackson. The Yankees were forced to withdraw in disarray, just as they had been forced a year earlier at First Manassas.
Following the battle of South Mountain, Hood drew rear-guard duty which put him at the north end of the Confederate line on Hagerstown Pike for Antietam. Just before sundown on September 16, "Fighting Joe" Hooker ordered General George Meade to advance against Hood's position as the Yankees prepared for battle the following day. Hood's men stopped the advance with several hundred musket balls and Hooker decided to wait until tomorrow.
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John Bell Hood's first military assignment of the Civil War came to him from an old commander - Hood probably thought of him as a friend - Robert E. Lee. General Lee assigned him to join John Magruder's enthusiastically named Army of the Peninsula, protecting Richmond from any incursions from Fort Monroe. Magruder made Lieutenant Hood a captain, major and lieutenant colonel in quick succession. Although he and his men from Texas were reassigned north, they returned to Virginia's lower peninsula a few months later.
As Union troops gained ground in the Peninsula Campaign, George McClellan leapfrogged a corps to West Point. To protect both the Confederate army and supply wagons withdrawing from Williamsburg Hood was ordered to brush back the Yankees at West Point. He ran into federal pickets at Eltham's Landing and attacked a reinforced skirmish line protecting the harbor. As the battle heated up Hood's commander, William Whiting, ordered artillery to advance in support of the brigade but the battery was out of range. Hood, however, was not out of range of federal gunboats on the York River and these forced him to withdraw. The wagon train safely withdrew because of Hood's attack.
Hood's brigade was assembled about 2 miles east of the depot at Fair Oaks. When Daniel Harvey Hill [CS] pushed back the Yankees along the Williamsburg Pike to the crossing at Seven Pines, Whiting advanced Hood and others to support the Confederate left flank and attack a small garrison of Yankees in the Fair Oaks depot. Hood, on the right of the line advanced past the depot towards Seven Pines, almost completely missing the battle that saw Joe Johnston seriously wounded.
Stonewall Jackson requested reinforcements before the Seven Days Battle and Lee reassigned Hood to the Army of the Shenandoah. Hood's first action during the Union retreat was at the Battle of Gaines Mill. Near the end of the battle Lee rode up to Whitings Division and asked for Hood. Lee had a special assignment for the brigadier general who had served with him in Texas. Moving quickly across an open meadow and crossing Boatswains Swamp (a creek), Hood's men charged the forward skirmish line with bayonets, drove them back, then blasted a hole in Fitz-John Porter's main line with their muskets, relieving pressure on A. P. Hill's men and initiating a general advance of Confederate troops across the stream. Porter, protecting McClellan's only supply line to his base at White House, was force to withdraw, putting the entire Army of the Potomac at risk.
Hood returned to the Shenandoah Valley with Jackson when Lee drove the Yankees from the Peninsula, but not for long. He was recalled and assigned to Longstreet in August, 1862 and his troop strength increased. At Second Manassas Hood held the center of the Confederate line. When Jackson, on Hood's left, came under attack, Lee ordered Hood to probe the federal lines for weakness. Never one to "probe," Hood advanced a reinforced skirmish line and ordered Evander Law to attack an open artillery battery. Only darkness stopped Hood's advance.
The next morning Hood was ordered to remain in position. As federals attacked Jackson along the unfinished railroad grade he could only watch. Then came orders to advance, rolling to his left to hit the flank of the 4 federal corps (Reno, Hooker, Kearny, McDowell) attacking Jackson. The Yankees were forced to withdraw in disarray, just as they had been forced a year earlier at First Manassas.
Following the battle of South Mountain, Hood drew rear-guard duty which put him at the north end of the Confederate line on Hagerstown Pike for Antietam. Just before sundown on September 16, "Fighting Joe" Hooker ordered General George Meade to advance against Hood's position as the Yankees prepared for battle the following day. Hood's men stopped the advance with several hundred musket balls and Hooker decided to wait until tomorrow.
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"Fighting Joe" Hooker
Antietam
Battle of Gaines Mill
Daniel Harvey Hill
Fair Oaks
First Manassas
Fitz-John Porter
George McClellan
George Meade
Joe Johnston
John Magruder
Peninsula Campaign
Robert E. Lee
Second Manassas
Seven Days Battle
Stonewall Jackson
Texas
Williamsburg
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