Hood was one of the better tactical brigade and maybe division commanders, but with an army he was completely out of his realm. After he got shot up at Gettysburg, he was in Richmond for most of his recovery. While there he got to rubbing elbows with the confederacy's upper crust, and became friends with Jefferson Davis. Joe Johnson was commander of The Army of Tennessee, he did a pretty good job of avoiding catastrophe facing Sherman's Army Group. Trouble was Davis didn't see it as avoiding catastrophe, he saw it as avoiding a fight. He replaced Johnson with Hood, and the rest, as the saying goes, is history. Hood weakened the army trying to force Sherman away from Atlanta, and pretty much Wrecked it at Franklin against Schofield. Till he got done with it at Nashville, The Army of Tennessee was nothing but an armed mob. Joe Johnson rebuilt it, but he wasn't much of a threat to Sherman then. "I can only annoy him". I think Johnson in 1864 understood Northern Moral and Lincoln's reelection, and did his best trading Territory for time. Davis was unable to see it that way, and he had a hardon for Joe Johnson anyway. 7mm
Speaking of General John Bell Hood for whom Fort Hood was named for, this will piss you off.
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