Very true. The new info i referenced will come out in a book in June this year— an incredible find of private personal letters. Written by a parallel line of relations to Hood, a Sam Hood. Should be very interesting.
The whole TN campaign should never have been carried out. US was seriously in control of the area just for starters. So much wasted lives— Franklin a debacle.
Hood was too influenced by his desire to punish the Unionist sections of Tennessee. Just as Lee’s first campaign was an attempt to coerce Unionist sections of Virgina, Hoods last campaign was an attempt to coerce Unionist sections of Tennessee.