John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General

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  Index

  Diary From Dixie, A, 247

  History of Maury County, Tennessee, A, 270

  Soldier to the Last, A, 202

  Adams, Gen. John, 112, 287

  Adams, Pvt. William, 28

  Advance and Retreat, xvi-xvii, 50, 144, 178, 211, 213, 216, 225, 258, 293

  “all lion, no fox” comment, 14-18

  Allatoona, Georgia, 134

  Anderson, Gen. James P., 26, 200

  Andersonville Prison, 61

  Andrew Female Academy, xxxii

  Anglesey leg, 278

  Army of Tennessee, 9; not destroyed during the Tennessee Campaign, 200, 202-203, 205-206; Hood resigns, 206; Stewart assumes command, 206; Hood did not call his men cowards, 208-209; tentativeness under Johnston, 216

  Army of Tennessee, 50, 81, 91

  The Army of Tennessee, xxxiv, 127, 149, 155, 209, 270, 284

  Army of Tennessee Association, 289

  Army of the Cumberland, 9, 54, 161, 222, 236-237

  Army of the Tennessee, 54, 56, 61

  Army of Tennessee, The: A Military History, 20, 79

  Army of Virginia, 8

  Atlanta 1864, 57

  Atlanta and the War, 269

  Atlanta Appeal, 53

  Atlanta and West Point Railroad, 90

  Atlanta Campaign, xviii, 10, 38, 46, 53, 60-61, 91, 103, 123, 205, 216, 237, 243, 262, 273

  Atlanta, Georgia, 12-13, 26-27, 29, 31-32, 34, 41, 48, 62-62n, 63, 69, 75, 82, 90-91, 179

  Atlanta, Georgia, battle of, xx, 53, 57, 62-62n, 64-65, 68, 75, 170, 202, 205, 212, 216, 237, 244, 256, 262-263, 294

  Attack and Die: Civil War Military Tactics and the Southern Heritage, 229

  Augusta Constitutionalist, 54, 59, 91

  Augusta, Georgia, 12