[DoodleDawg]

I think Hood had a mental lapse late in the war. To much morphine? His unbridled butchery really got going when he took over the Army of Tennessee.

It could be his injuries. It could be morphine. It could be the fact that some men rise above their abilities. While Hood was fantastic as a division and brigade commander, and excellent as a corps commander, he was a bloody disaster as an army commander.

[vetvetdoug]

Forrest to Hood at Spring Hill; “If you were a whole man I'd tear you apart!” This was after Hood ordered Forrest's men to attack the Union troops entrenched at Franklin with cavalry that had been reduced to fewer than six rounds per man after fighting the enemy troops constantly for three days. Hood didn't realize the opportunity Forrest had previously offered him with Schofield’s troops stretched out thinly from Spring Hill to Franklin.

[Bull Snipe]

cannot cite the source, but years ago I read that upon General Hood’s appointment to command the AOT, General Lee stated to an aide that he thought General Hood “to much wolf, and not enough fox to command the army.”