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the brigade began
Hood's brigade started in texas with the 1st, 4th, and 5th infantry divisions -
Georgia joins the battle
the 18th infantry division from georgia joins the brigade -
John Hood Bell
General Wigfel resigned and John Hood Bell was promoted to brigadeir general. thus the name Hood's Brigade -
a very large division
18 companies from the wade hamption south carolina legion joined the brigade -
Battle of Antieum (sharpsburg)
the battle of sharpsburg was the first battle in union soil with roughly 23,000 casualties. the brigade was under the command of General Longstreet. the brigade and the rest of the confederate armies won this day and continued to retreat back into -
Arkansas
The third arkansas division joins the brigade -
Hood's promotion to commander
John hood bell was promoted to commander of the division the brigade was working wiith at the time, Jerome Robertson was the new brigadeir general -
shrinking the brigade
the georgia and all the south carolina divisions withdrawn from the brigade leaving the 1st, 4th, and 5th texas infantry and the 3rd arkansas infantry -
day 2 of gettysburg
in the second day of the battle of gettysburg the texas brigade broke off from General hills corps to attack sickles III corps and won that battle in that evening. this brigade was under the command of general Longstreet under his 1st corps during this battle. -
John hood bell injured in battle midday
in the battle for Chickamauga John bell was injured and could no longer lead the division. this lead to the promotion of John Gregg to lead the brigade -
battle of chickamauga morning
the battle of chickamauge was a battle in northern georgia under the command of general bragg for the south and general rosecrans for the union. early morning on september 20th John Hood Bell was sent in with his brigade to search the forest and was cought in a small hole in the union line and it caused a panic where john bell hood was injured. the south won this battle -
Robert E Lee takes charge of the texas brigade
Robert E Lee personally takes command and leads the texas brigade in a battle of the wilderness -
Battle of wilderness
at 6 A.M General longstreet arrived on the right flank with the texas brigade to reinforce the confederates at the battle of wilderness. the excited general Lee cried "Texans always push them back"
