Nytram01
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Sep 13, 2007
- Location
- Portsmouth, Hampshire, England
I was looking through my limited personal library of Civil War Books a little while ago and there is one statement that caught my eye. It was this from "Joseph E. Johnston and the Defense of Richmond - Steven H. Newton" :
The abortive attackes at Cassville and Pickett's Mill foundered within the peculiar relationship between Johnston and Hood, which has depths that still remain unexplored. - Page 204
And this made me wonder about what the Johnston/Hood relationship was actually like. I have seen online extremes for both sides from those who are biased in the favour of one or the other (and as a Johnston partisan I am not the best kind of man to comment on such things) but I have only ever seen or read brief overviews of the Atlanta Campaign with very little in the way of in depth information about the relationships between the Army and Corps commanders.
So I would like to ask the question; how did Hood behave under Johnston's command and how did Johnston behave towards Hood?
The abortive attackes at Cassville and Pickett's Mill foundered within the peculiar relationship between Johnston and Hood, which has depths that still remain unexplored. - Page 204
And this made me wonder about what the Johnston/Hood relationship was actually like. I have seen online extremes for both sides from those who are biased in the favour of one or the other (and as a Johnston partisan I am not the best kind of man to comment on such things) but I have only ever seen or read brief overviews of the Atlanta Campaign with very little in the way of in depth information about the relationships between the Army and Corps commanders.
So I would like to ask the question; how did Hood behave under Johnston's command and how did Johnston behave towards Hood?
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