Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) ecws by John Avlon

by John Avlon

Story by Carl Adams

he anticipated the opportunity to earn military glory only to be posted to Pittsburgh on recruiting duty

The constitutionality of the mechanism by which the new state would be created concerned the president

2021 release

Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) ecws by John Avlonby Noel Carpenter In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenters Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hoods Slight Demonstration at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. By late 1864, Hoods army of