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John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the American Civil War, born in 1831 and known for aggressive combat leadership. He rose from brigade command to lead the Army of Tennessee, becoming the youngest man on either side to command an army at 33.
Sources record two possible dates for John Bell Hood's birth, either the 1st of June or the 29th of June, 1831, in Owingsville, Kentucky. He was the son of Dr. John Wills Hood and Theodosia French Hood.
John Bell Hood's right leg was amputated four inches below the hip after his femur was shattered at the Battle of Chickamauga. The wound came on the 20th of September, 1863, while he led an assault that broke the Union line. He had already been severely wounded in the left arm at Gettysburg two months earlier.
John Bell Hood was relieved of command after his Tennessee Campaign collapsed. The campaign included a disastrous assault at Franklin and a decisive defeat by Maj. Gen. George Henry Thomas at Nashville. Gen. P. G. T. Beauregard replaced him with Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor on the 23rd of January, 1865.
John Bell Hood, his wife Anna Marie Hennen, and their eldest daughter Lydia died within a single week during Louisiana's 1878-79 yellow fever epidemic. Their ten surviving children were left orphaned and destitute. The Texas Brigade Association supported them for more than 20 years, until seven families adopted all ten.
John Bell Hood is buried in the Hennen family tomb at Metairie Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. He died there on the 30th of August, 1879, after his insurance business was ruined by a yellow fever epidemic.
Fort Hood was named after John Bell Hood until the 9th of May, 2023. The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, passed by Congress over a presidential veto, required renaming all ten U.S. Army bases named for Confederate military leaders.