. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. succeeded General Beaure-gard in command of the Department of the Mississippi. He took(563) 564 APPENDIX. active measures against General Buell in Kentucky, but wasobliged to retire before superior forces to Perryville. For thisfailure he was removed from command and placed under arrest. He was, however, soon restored. Opposed to Rosecrans at thebattle of Murfreesborough. At Chickamauga, one of the most?desperate conflicts of the war, he totally routed General Rosecrans,and met Grant at Mission Ridge and Chattanooga, where he w
. Gen. Robert Edward Lee; soldier, citizen, and Christian patriot. succeeded General Beaure-gard in command of the Department of the Mississippi. He took(563) 564 APPENDIX. active measures against General Buell in Kentucky, but wasobliged to retire before superior forces to Perryville. For thisfailure he was removed from command and placed under arrest. He was, however, soon restored. Opposed to Rosecrans at thebattle of Murfreesborough. At Chickamauga, one of the most?desperate conflicts of the war, he totally routed General Rosecrans,and met Grant at Mission Ridge and Chattanooga, where he wasdefeated. He was again relieved of his command, and ordered toRichmond, where he acted as military adviser to President 1S64 he led a small force from North Carolina to Georgia, tooperate against Sherman in his march to the sea. After the closeof the war he settled in Mobile, Ala., and became chief engineerof the State of Alabama in improving Mobile harbor. He died inGalveston, Tex., on September 27th, 1876.—Confederate WarJournal^ October, GENERAL JOHN B. HOOD Was born in Owingsville, Bath County, Ky., June ist, was graduated in 1853 at the United States Military serving in California he was transferred in 1855to the Second Cavalry, of which Albert Sidney Johnston wascolonel and Robert E. Lee lieutenant-colonel. In the fight atDevils Run with the Comanche and Lipun Indians, in July, 1857,he was severely wounded in a hand-to-hand encounter with a was promoted first lieutenant in 1858. At the beginning of the Civil War, Hood resigned his commis-sion, and, entering the Confederate service, rose to the rank ofcolonel, and after a short service in the Peninsula was appointedbrigadier-general of the Texas brigade. He was engaged at WestPoint, Va., and while leading his men at Gaines Mill was shot inthe body. In this battle his brigade lost more than half its number,and Hood was brevetted major-general. He was engaged in t
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