| Summary: | (In the photograph, Hood's collar indicates rank of colonel while the buttons and sleeve braids indicate a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point, 1853. Resigned his U.S. Army commission in April 1861 and was appointed colonel in the 4th Texas Infantry. Promoted to brigadier general in March 1862, major general in October 1862, lieutenant general in February 1864, and general in July 1864. Major campaigns and battles include Gaines' Mill, Second Manassas, Antietam, Fredericksburg (wounded), Gettysburg (wounded), Chickamauga, the Atlanta campaign, and the Franklin and Nashville campaigns. After the war, Hood became a New Orleans businessman and died there in August 1879. Sources: Boatner, Mark M. The Civil War Dictionary. New York: Vintage Books, 1988. Davis, William C., ed. The Confederate General. Vol. 3. National Historical Society, 1991.
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