...ht well assume that I was not, as General Beauregard and himself, acquainted with the true condition of the army when they decided on the Tennessee campaign. Of the manner in which he conducted it, Isham G. Harris , the governor of Tennessee, a man of whose judgment, integrity, and manhood I had the highest opinion, wrote to me, on December 25, 1864: . . . I have been with General Hood from the beginning o...