Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) Section - West Point illuminating Hayden’s survey as a

illuminating Hayden’s survey as a national project meant to give Americans a sense of achievement and unity in the wake of a destructive civil war

Smith's defeat came at the end of a campaign rife with anti-Catholic sentiment

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Powell was wounded and captured on the slope of the rocky hill and was not paroled until weeks before the end of the war

Holzer examines the use of visual arts to preserve the life and legacy of the martyred president

Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) Section - West Point illuminating Hayden’s survey as aby Noel Carpenter In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenters Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hoods Slight Demonstration at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. By late 1864, Hoods army of