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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Preface. (search)
the time of the battle of Sharpsburg; then being sent to the Mississippi river, defeated Gen. W. T. Sherman at Chickasaw bayou; was afterward in command of the department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and from Atlanta to Bentonville commanded Hood's corps of the army of Tennessee, with the rank of lieutenant-general. Since the close of the war he has devoted himself to the vital interests of his beloved South, along the line of technical education, and for several years has been president t of the Confederacy, until he fell, severely wounded, before the Federal works at Franklin, Tenn. One of the most gallant affairs of the war in that important mountain region south of Chattanooga, was his memorable defense of Ship's gap, covering Hood's retreat from North Georgia in the fall of 1864. Entering the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church, after the war, he is now bishop of the diocese of South Carolina. Prof. Joseph T. Derry, author of the military history of Georgia, is
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
n the President removed him and replaced him by Hood; whose army was not long afterwards wrecked. the west of Atlanta, said to Sherman, General, Hood will attack me here, and when Sherman expressedat he was indomitable. In the rank of second-lieutenant Hood served about two years in California, on gives credit to the Fourth Texas, led by General Hood, as the first to pierce the Federal entrenchville, Tenn. At the close of this campaign General Hood applied to be relieved from the command of army had retired to Virginia, Longstreet, with Hood and Mc-Laws' divisions, was sent to reinforce B of Harrisburg he was called to take command of Hood's corps of the army at Atlanta. There he fough campaign his corps was left at Columbia, while Hood made his flank movement at Spring Hill, and but and in the succeeding Tennessee campaign under Hood. At the last he commanded a corps of Johnston'nce against Sherman's communications, and after Hood had entered Tennessee Wheeler put his little ca[9 more...]