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On this day in 1831, John Bell Hood was born in Owingswiville, Kentuky.
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Hood graduated from West Point in 1853.
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On this date, Hood subsided from his duties in the regular army, and began to serve the Confederate Army in the Civil War.
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When he began fighting, he was commissioned a First Lieutenant in the 4th Texas Cavalry, later rising to the rank of Colonel by October 1861.
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He was promoted to Brigadier General, where he took command of a brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia. He fought in several memorable battles such as The Battle of Seven Pines & The Seven Days' Battle.
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He was commisioned a division in North Carolina, less than a week after the Battle of Seven Pines.
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This is where General Hood first gained the title "General" after he had finished serving in Antietam.
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Arm was amputated at gettysburg during battle.
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Hood has yet again lost a limb and is now a double amputee. He has to be strapped in to his hose to ride.
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When he was serving with the Army of Tennessse, he was promoted yet again to Lieutenant General.
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He commanded attacks at Ezera Church during the Atlanta Campain.
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Sometime in the summer of 64, Atlanta was lost to the Confederate Army.
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John was forced to evacuate the cuty to save him self and any soldiers that he had left.
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Hood desperatly tried to deter Sherman's troops from Georgia but to no avail, despite his attacks on Tennesse and the Union's supply lines.
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He was elevated to the temporary rank of General.
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He led his rag-tag army and surprising ly besieged the heavily gaurded state of Tennessee.
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The ary of Tennesse was destroyed causing disgrase to the Hood name.
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Digrased, he left the army and retired to tend to his family.
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The Yellow fever Epidemic hits the US.
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General Hood died of Yellow Fever in 1879. He had 10 Children and a wife who is believed to hae suffered the same fate.