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Hood was promoted to the temporary rank of full general on July 18 and given command of the army just outside the gates of Atlanta. (Hood's temporary appointment as a full general was never confirmed by the Confederate Senate. His commission as a lieutenant general resumed on January 23, 1865. [13]) At 33, Hood was the youngest man on either ...
Collection of the records began in 1864; no special attention was paid to Confederate records until just after the capture of Richmond, Virginia, in 1865, when with the help of Confederate Gen. Samuel Cooper, Union Army Chief of Staff Maj. Gen. Henry W. Halleck began the task of collecting and preserving such archives of the Confederacy as had survived the war.
Robert E. Lee, the best known CSA general.Lee is shown with the insignia of a Confederate colonel, which he chose to wear throughout the war. Much of the design of the Confederate States Army was based on the structure and customs of the United States Army [1] when the Confederate States Congress established the Confederate States War Department on February 21, 1861. [2]
Led a Confederate army in the Valley Campaigns of 1864, including the battles of Monocacy, Fort Stevens and Cedar Creek. Command dispersed at Waynesboro. Echols, John: Brigadier general rank, nom: April 16, 1862 conf: April 18, 1862 Virginia legislator. 27th Virginia Infantry: lieutenant colonel, May 30, 1861, colonel, October 14, 1861.
At this time, hundreds of the soldiers fell sick, which was a common occurrence in newly formed Civil War era military units. In March 1862, Hood was promoted to command the Texas brigade. Marshall became colonel and Captain J. C. G. Key of Company A was promoted major. The regiment's first combat was the Battle of Eltham's Landing on 7 May ...
The Franklin–Nashville campaign, also known as Hood's Tennessee campaign, was a series of battles in the Western Theater, conducted from September 18 to December 27, 1864, [5] [6] in Alabama, Tennessee, and northwestern Georgia during the American Civil War.
The Battle of Decatur was a demonstration conducted from October 26 to October 29, 1864, as part of the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces of 3–5,000 men under Brigadier-General Robert S. Granger prevented the 39,000 men of the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General John B. Hood from crossing the Tennessee River at Decatur, Alabama.
James Longstreet (January 8, 1821 – January 2, 1904) was a Confederate general during the American Civil War and was the principal subordinate to General Robert E. Lee, who called him his "Old War Horse".