[snippy_about_it]

General Hood was all guts, no brains, I'm afraid.

He didn't always seem to be that way, but in war it only takes once if you're not on the ball. From what I've learned here in the Foxhole I expect his failure at Franklin had to do with his downhill spiral after the loss of his limbs and the pain he was in.

For Hood to have gone on commanding was both worthy and at the same time sad because he put the troops at risk and they all paid dearly.

[Tax-chick]

I should have added "in this case"! Earlier in the war, and at a lower level of command, Hood's single-minded aggressiveness was useful. Have you read James Lee Burke's In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead? General Hood has a very interesting role!

Jefferson Davis' selection of leaders in the West was such a disaster from start to finish!