Gettysburg

[Liverpooldawg]

Hood was very good until he lost his leg. He had PTSD real bad after that. In his post-Atlanta drive into Tennessee he supposedly was ordering units into battle that didn't exist any more.

He was a very good subordinate commander, very agressive and hard hitting. Those traits didn't serve him very well when he reached the army command level. If he had PTSD that certainly didn't help. I'm not that sure how fair it is to judge him by his post Atlanta actions though. The Confederates were desperate by then. They had no way of directly confronting Sherman and had to try something to stop him. That something was Hood's Tennessee campaign. Today it looks like a doomed from the start act of last gasp desperation. Hood obviously could never admit it, but I've often thought Hood probabaly looked at it that way at the time too.

[BrunswickDawg]

He was a very good subordinate commander, very agressive and hard hitting. Those traits didn't serve him very well when he reached the army command level. If he had PTSD that certainly didn't help. I'm not that sure how fair it is to judge him by his post Atlanta actions though. The Confederates were desperate by then. They had no way of directly confronting Sherman and had to try something to stop him. That something was Hood's Tennessee campaign. Today it looks like a doomed from the start act of last gasp desperation. Hood obviously could never admit it, but I've often thought Hood probabaly looked at it that way at the time too.

Read "Shrouds of Glory" by Winston Groom (yes, the author of Forrest Gump). It's a terrific look at Hood's Nashville campaign - which was actually a campaign to take Cincinnati. It shows how desperate the Confederates were.