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I’m no Hood fan but he was suffering from crap injuries and in pain and had been given the task to try a Hail Mary in the west which was lost through many bad moves long before him

Fort donelson capitulation

Not trying harder to keep New Orleans

Having Pemberton at Vicksburg

And Johnston to relieve him....Johnston was only good at retreating and preserving his forces

AS Johnston not realizing his boot was filling up with blood ....the big hit

Bragg being kept on despite his horrible generalship

Kirby Smith being kept out west fighting phantoms

Forrest and Cleburne not being corps commands due to politics

Cheatham drunk at Spring Hill

Forrest left out galavanting

Not letting Forrest at least try to flank west out the Franklin to Dickson Hwy ...best shot they had to thwart Schofield retreat over the harpeth

Hood after Schofield snuck by that night 11-29 1864 ....huge blunder

Had no choice but to attack ...well he could have let them go on to Nashville but that was an even taller order though he would have had far more men left to fight with

I am writing around 2500 yards due south of Carnton house on the Eastern flank where they laid out four of the flag officers after the battle on the front veranda

Cleburne was brought to Harrison House about 1000 yards nw of where I’m lying in bed on iPad freeping....a private home open annually for pilgrimage for one day or so
My foundation is on an old plantation house on a cross lane tween Columbia and Lewisburg pikes and they watered at my cistern

It was tragic valor at its utmost

They knew if they failed it was over ....my home state of Mississippi lost the most and the CSA Missouri and Kentucky orphan brigades had no homes to return to

Pitiable ....that night was bitter cold for the wounded and dying on the field

I take a wreath each Christmas to the Mississippi section at McGavock

They name forts and bases after crappy Union and later generals as well