Leader of the fabled Texas Brigade, John Bell Hood was highly regarded among the ranks of Confederate generals. Despite sustaining wounds at Gettysburg and losing a leg at Chickamauga, Hood ...

With concise facts and anecdotes of war generals during battle struggles, this book debunks Civil War myths often thought to be true. Books for Kids: Gettysburg by MacKinlay Kantor (1987): For ...

But his luck changed for the worse at Gettysburg ... a commission as a major in the Confederate service. Quickly promoted to colonel and then brigadier general, he led a brigade under James ...