Let us die like men

As the Army of Tennessee approached Franklin on the afternoon of November 30, 1864, John Bell Hood and his commanders met at the Harrison House, just south of Winstead Hill.

Cleburne's words to his fellow General-colleague, Daniel Govan are now etched into eternity.

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[BenAliGtor]

John Bell Hood should have never been placed in command of that Army. Although his personal valor is above reproach, he was wounded and exhausted- physically, emotionally and spiritually-to the point where he had nothing left to give.

Too many good men went to their deaths at Franklin and Nashville because Hood had "something to prove" in that sorrowful autumn of 1864.

[TheDuckHowie]

"I will take the works or I will die in the attempt!", Patrick Cleburne - Stonewall of the West - He will be remembered long after most of the Generals in the Great War Between the States are forgotten; North or South! I would like to see a monument of him in D.C. just as there are ones of Sherman and Grant

[huffdawgs8]

@BenAliGtor That is one of the best statements on Hood I've read in awhile.... he was young and ambitious like many young men are, but he was in way over his head, That being said, too many men focus on his mistakes, if he would have stayed a brig general, then he'd be one the confederacy's greatest heros, instead, Franklin is his legacy.