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The family of Gen. Richard Cavazos, the U.S. Army's first Hispanic four-star general, expressed sadness Wednesday over President Donald Trump's plan to restore the original names of several military ...
John Bell Hood’s Disastrous Mistake. Detour to Disaster was originally published posthumously in 2007 as A Slight Demonstration. Former Air Force officer Carpenter, a life-long resident of Decatur, ...
October 21, 2017 Confederate General John Bell Hood. Stephen Hood, author of John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General, talked about some of the m… ...
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Historians discussed the generals such as Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood who led the Army of Tennessee, the principle Confederate army west of the Mississippi River. This program was part of ...
Historian James Kay discussed Confederate General John Bell Hood's defeat at the Battle of Franklin in Tennessee in 1864. The American Battlefield trust hosted this event.
Tuesday’s ceremony honors Texas-born, Mexican-American Gen. Richard Cavazos, who was awarded high honors in both the Korean and Vietnam wars, in place of Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood.
John Bell Hood, the Confederate general from Owingsville, Ky., was the base’s namesake from 1942 until May 9, 2023. A West Point graduate of 1853, ...
On Dec. 15, 1864 — 160 years ago today — the Battle of Nashville began. Just weeks after his defeats at Spring Hill and Franklin, Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood again tried to take his Army ...
THE GALLANT HOOD (383 pp.) — John P. Dyer—Bobbs-Merrill ($3.50). By dusk on June 26, 1862, General Robert E. Lee knew that his first major attack had ended in failure. Before him on the ...
Fort Hood, the sprawling Army base in Central Texas, will officially be renamed Fort Cavazos on May 9, shedding its Confederate name.