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Bearded, intrepid West Pointer Hood led his troops in the grand manner-and suffered the consequences. At Gettysburg he was wounded in the arm; at Chickamauga he lost his right leg. In the heat of battle, "he was transformed from a shy, awkward young general perplexed by the minutiae of paper work, tactical details and camp routine into a fearless and almost terrible leader who inspired his men, to heroic feats." Unfortunately for the Southern cause, Confederate President Jefferson Davis mistook bravery for generalship, put the crippled Hood in command of the Army of Tennessee in the midst...
...Thomas, "the old gray mare of the Union," a Virginia-born artilleryman who commanded infantry and was certain that the chief role of the big guns was to give the footsloggers a hand. Wearing his finest uniform, "all togged out like a Christmas tree," the famed Rock of Chickamauga "rode along the line, bellowing in a voice audible to every man within a hundred yards that help was coming; all they had to do was keep down and shoot...
THOMAS: ROCK OF CHICKAMAUGA (385 pp.) - Richard O'Connor-Prentice-Hall...
...Virginia plantation, attended West Point more or less by accident (everybody else nominated from his district had failed), served with the Union Army during the Civil War, and won his place in history by standing firm during the near-rout of the Union forces at the battle of Chickamauga. These two new biographies attempt the difficult task of making the life of a military paragon seem interesting...
Statue. The climax of Thomas' career came at Chickamauga, on Sept. 20, 1863, when his corps of perhaps 20,000 men held up the entire Confederate Army under Bragg (over 50,000), after Thomas' superior, Rosecrans, had retreated to Chattanooga. Contemporaries paid so much attention to the blunders of both Rosecrans and Bragg that Thomas' achievement seemed less impressive to them than it seems now, and the fact that Chickamauga was a Confederate victory obscured the brilliance of his own handling of his troops. Both biographers tell the story of the battle in great detail, and both...