John Bell Hood
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Sep 27, 2026
Darren WeeksHOST
But soon later, Wilder and Lilly saw a new threat coming.
Darren WeeksHOST
Coming from the northeast to the southwest, approaching the Lafayette Road, in their front was a division of none other than John Bell Hood.
Darren WeeksHOST
Now, Hood had three brigades at Chickamauga.
Darren WeeksHOST
But fortunately, due to some communication errors for the Union, he only fought with two, because that was the brigade of Evander Law, the Alabamans.
Hayden DanielHOST
ends and Rosecrans is basically going into Georgia, they can't deny the reality of the situation anymore.
Hayden DanielHOST
And they finally acquiesce to Longstreet's request and agree that he and two divisions from his corps, that of John Bell Hood and Lafayette McClaws, can go to the West and go and help Bragg's army.
Hayden DanielHOST
So they are on the train, speeding it towards northern Georgia to go and reinforce Bragg's army.
Hayden DanielHOST
So now we are.
Hayden DanielHOST
Lee doesn't want to lose his best subordinate, and Jefferson Davis basically doesn't want to replace Bragg.
Hayden DanielHOST
So they both strongly resist Longstreet's request to go West for as long as they possibly can until basically after the Tullahoma campaign ends and Rosecrans is basically going into Georgia, they can't deny the reality of the situation anymore, and they finally acquiesce to Longstreet's request and agree that he and two divisions from his corps, that of John Bell Hood and Lafayette Claus Can go to the west and go and help Bragg's army.
Hayden DanielHOST
So they are on the train, speeding it towards northern Georgia to go and reinforce Bragg's army.
Hayden DanielHOST
So now we are, we've set the stage.
Chris WhiteHOST
George Pickett's not at the head of his division and gets all kinds of hell for it for not getting himself killed.
Chris WhiteHOST
Yet you flip to the other side and John Bell Hood is at the head of his division or at least close to the head of his division.
Chris WhiteHOST
And oh, what could have been if he would have stuck around? So it really, it deals a lot with your reputation as well as the what ifs after the war.
Chris WhiteHOST
Yeah.
RichHOST
But it was not to be.
RichHOST
That's because at the last minute, just as Hardy was about to send Claiborne's division forward into the battle, a staff officer from Army headquarters galloped up with orders from John Bell Hood, directing Hardy to send Claiborne south, quote-unquote, with all haste, to help in blocking the advance of McPherson's Federals east of Atlanta.
TracyHOST
Irving Buck, Claiborne's adjutant, later recalled, quote, five minutes more would have been too late and would have found this command heavily engaged.
RichHOST
But instead of joining the Battle of Peachtree Creek, Claiborne promptly withdrew his men and started them on their march southward.
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TracyHOST
a jostling for position by the armies between the just-concluded Battle of Peachtree Creek and the soon-to-be opened Battle of Atlanta.
RichHOST
John B.
RichHOST
Hood would provide a brief initial report of the fighting that day to Richmond, but then would ignore it entirely in his official report and his memoirs.
RichHOST
Likewise, the report that was wired from Sherman's headquarters to Washington that evening stated only, "...skirmishing sharp and lively all day, but no general engagement."
Will TannerHOST
He rode up to Major General James Longstreet and quietly ordered a general all-out assault across the entire two-mile front.
Will TannerHOST
At 7 p.m., as the setting sun cast long, bloody shadows across the battlefield, Lee unleashed his reserve, the Texas Brigade, under Brigadier General John Bell Hood.
Will TannerHOST
Hood, a 6-foot-2 giant with pale, fierce eyes, placed himself at the head of the 4th Texas Infantry.
Will TannerHOST
He ordered his men to fix bayonets and forbade them to fire a single shot until they crested the works.
David BlightHOST
They were almost unopposed.
David BlightHOST
General John B. Hood's Confederate army that had surrendered, or in effect given up Atlanta, had retreated south to fight again.
David BlightHOST
And Hood's idea, but actually without Jefferson Davis's Well, if Sherman was going to invade toward the east, toward the sea and destroy Georgia, Hood took an army of about 30,000 men and invaded back up into Tennessee, hoping that Sherman would stop and come after him.
David BlightHOST
Sherman said, let him go.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
The Confederacy switches commanders.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
Johnston is replaced by John Bell Hood.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
So it is this ...
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
But, but all of this is happening kind of on the backdrop also of what's happening in Virginia with Grant getting stymied outside of Petersburg, trying to break through the Petersburg lines, if you've ever heard of the Battle of the Crater.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
It's not a full siege 'cause people are, are able to kind of move in and out, and there's battles kinda to the south and skirmishing around it.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
And the Confederate Army is still in Atlanta until September 2nd, which is when they retreat.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
You know, the Sherman's army assaults, John Bell Hood's Confederate forces retreat, and that's when you have a little bit of Atlanta burns, not all of it.
Anne Sarah RubinGUEST
If you've ever seen Gone With the Wind, which I know a lot of ...
RichHOST
And we're going to pick right back up where we left off in the aftermath of the Battle of Peachtree Creek, which took place just a stone's throw north of Atlanta on July 20, 1864.
RichHOST
The Battle of Peachtree Creek, or Peachtree Ridge, or Peachtree, Hood's First Sorty, as it would variously come to be called, would be overshadowed by the bigger fights that would soon follow that would determine the fate of Atlanta.
RichHOST
Although more Federal and Confederate soldiers fell during the clash on July 20th than at Kennesaw Mountain the month before, no land would be marked off and preserved for a national battlefield park, and no visitor center would be constructed.
TracyHOST
Until relatively recently, hardly any books were written about the battle.
TracyHOST
Roughly along the line of the jumping-off point for the Confederate assault, 20th century interstates would carve up and alter the landscape, and so make it almost impossible to visualize or walk the ground where the rebel formations began their attacks.
RichHOST
But nonetheless, the Battle of Peachtree Creek would have its lasting effects, some military and others political.
RichHOST
militarily the message was clear having just taken command hood showed he understood the assignment and he proved himself to be a fighter However, beginning with Peachtree Creek, the cost for the Confederates in casualties of Hood demonstrating his willingness to throw punches, well, that cost would be considerable.
TracyHOST
And at Peachtree Creek, Hood's willingness to throw a punch didn't yield the tangible results he'd hoped for.