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Davis was tired of Johnston not engaging in battles and tendency to retreat, so Davis promoted Hood. Hood was the aggressive general Davis wanted, so I assume Davis was pleased with his choice.
Hood blamed all his screwups on his subordinates. Hood never said he made a mistake, (as far as I can recall off hand),
Hood wasn't as bad as history records.
In Advance and Retreat Hood talks about that meeting with Breckenridge before he left for the AoT. Breckenridge said, "My dear Hood, here you are beloved by your fellow-soldiers, and, although badly shattered, with the comfort of having done noble service, and without trouble or difficulty with any man." <Seems Breckenridge was warning him of what lay ahead.>There are no cheers, only sullen silence, punctuated by occasional shouts form the ranks of "Give us Johnston! Give us our old commander!
Point well taken. Interesting that the Confederate Congress did not evaluate Johnston the way Davis did even though they had the same information.Davis did not reappoint Johnston to command after the Franklin-Nashville Campaign of his own volition. His hand was forced.
The Confederate Congress passed a bill in January 1865 which appointed Robert E.Lee as General-in-Chief and in the very same bill recommended Johnston be returned to Command of the Army of Tennessee.
Davis willingly appointed Lee General-in-Chief but resisted restoring Johnston for a month, and he wrote a ****ing assessment of Johnston's conduct over the course of the war fully intending to submit it to Congress to fight the call to restore Johnston.
It was not until Lee himself came to Davis with the recommendation that Johnston be reappointed to command that Davis gave in.
So whatever else he might have felt about Hood's time in command of the Army of Tennessee, I doubt very much that any feelings of remorse about it led him to restoring Johnston
My bad I meant Toombs which my phone auto corrected to "rooms".Who is "Rooms"?
OK. If you meant Robert Toombs, he was already in Georgia at this time., with the Georgia Militia.My bad I meant Toombs which my phone auto corrected to "rooms".
Leftyhunter
Which means if Davis is in the field there is no effective Confederate Presidency. Davis for practical reasons would be a poor choice to command the AoT.OK. If you meant Robert Toombs, he was already in Georgia at this time., with the Georgia Militia.
Plus per William Cooper severe neuralgia. Even at the presidential mansion Davis would not infrequently be bedridden for days due to severe pain.Regarding Davis himself taking an active charge by making himself an Army commander. That never would have happened.Jefferson Davis had suffered poor health for many years. He likely contracted malaria or yellow fever about the time his first wife died. Additionally, as I said earlier, he had his hands more than full just being president.
Toombs was not part of the CSA government. If you have confused him with Alex Stephens, who was the CSA Vice President, no matter as Stephens rarely put an apperance in at Richmond. Davis would not have had to relieve Johnston as commander of the AoT. In fact, that would have been counter-productive. He did need to be in Atlanta to explain what he wanted. There was no real need for him to be at Richmond, but if something did require his attention, the telegraph was still operational.Which means if Davis is in the field there is no effective Confederate Presidency. Davis for practical reasons would be a poor choice to command the AoT.
Leftyhunter
Davis was tired of Johnston not engaging in battles and tendency to retreat, so Davis promoted Hood. Hood was the aggressive general Davis wanted, so I assume Davis was pleased with his choice.
Imo no. Hoods army had already been beaten up from multiple attacks, some of the time it was Hoods fault, sometimes his subordinates. Atlanta had become untenable. Peachtree was probably his best shot but coordination of attack was a problem, subordinate issues. Ezra's church, i have no idea what SD Lee was thinking, where Hood was, or why Lee was In command to begin with. The AoT seemed to continually shoot itself in the foot.Should have Hood made one more blow before he abandoned Atlanta? Davis wanted a general who would attack. So perhaps Davis believed Hood abandoned Atlanta to quickly?