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death of gen. hood.
. true chevalier of the lost
CAUSE.
Pathetic Scenes »t the Close of n Brilliant
end Useful Llfe-Hls Military Career-
In the Days of Peace—A Hero, a
Christian and n Gentleman.
| Set Oilcans Picayune.
It is with the profoundeet regret that
' ‘ i the death of the
ed soldier whose name in every chronicle
the giganticstruggle between the North of
and the South will always rank among
the bravest and most chivolrio of the
Confederate leaders. All that the most
experienced and highest medical skill
I could devise, and that the warmest
I friendship and tenderesi affection could
mggeet to save him from the grim de-
I stroyer was tried, but it was of no avail.
I The sudden death of his wife, to whom
I he was devotedly attached, had pros
trated him, and he himself, we learn,
assured those around him that he did
1 not expect to recover. Two of his chil-
| dren were sick at the Bame time with
limself: Lydia, the eldest, now danger-
nisly ill, and Ethel, one of the twins.
The ruling passion was strong through
put to death. At various periods du-
I ring his illness he expressed himself in
1 military terms. Thus, on Friday, he
I said to his physician, Dr. Bemiss :
I “Dector, if you cannot overcome the
I enemy, do not try any experiments."
I Again, later in the day, when a fa-
[vorable symptom occurred, he said:
“Doctor, I believe that we have rout-
Shortly before death he was delirious,
land expired, like Napoleoc, giving or-
Iders to his columns engaged in the bat-
Itle tlame and smoke.
| The scene presented in the residence
|u indeed a sad one; two of the children
Ijick up stairs, and nine down stairs
I liable to attack from the malady that
IJ?* deprived them of a devoted father.
I the mother is gone, and none remain
|ai the adults of that happy home circle
■out the aged and enfeebled grandmother
Ills MILITARY CAREER.
_ With the general features of the bril
I nut career of the deceased, in the Con-
IWerate service, the world is familiar.
I 'e propose now ( o give many of their
■uelails, They could not be done jus-
Ij a P ar agraphs. For many
|, ic.data we are indebted to abio-
K jphioal work that is now rare. For
l.i. i to 8tor ‘ es told us during and
™ ar by t * 10B0 who had fought
I a For others, from reminis-
I. “ ces b y *he General himself, on the
ImJi r S r , e 0ccaa ' cn 8 when the singularly
I Jj!?? ^ ero cou ld be induced to say
robing of his feats of arms.
If,jeoeased soldier was born
IfunTiRui’ Batl) count y. Kentucky,
IStp,ii ’ was educated at Mount
lin iQ ir?’ ent ® re d West Point Academy
Biiutv'i ^aduated, and was assigned
VbJ 0 l . h ? f th Infantry in 1853. L«
■and ™ W ! lh xi two years in California,
IK" 1 transferred in July, 1855, to
liohnotft &Va ry 1 of which Albert Sidney
IR I - waa l * len Colonel and Robert
liiient !.! J -' e , utenant 'Colonel. The ftgi-
IHanv L.'-'Sr 8U bsequently furnished
■NnrtL. 1 la , nt 0 dicers to both Uv
ucsttsMi Southern armies, was
-Ftu frnni- a °og the western and north-
W at h °A as: and in Jul y- 1866 -
IdistinBuUL j 1 I e . ad ot his company, first
|desp g e“L e fi h AT lfin baU, °- winning
Peinehim 6 in ffom the Indians, o
lrrow in7u lfbadl y wo.unded with an
la warri or S ^ and to baud encounter with
having been
l»bit &° l0 - r of cavalry b at West
| theffouthernarmy. P ° 8iU ° n
l^eutenatfr g ' ve , a a commission of .
■■en. I i Ut Vj or dered to report
<&DW 1 „ ln M ?y. 1861. He was
P 0t Wtopf aP M inof CBvalry and re
Pula. Wo _ 1 “W ruder on the Penin
"el. in s^ as ‘J* the fight at Big Beth-
to 186i > bo was order-
***H*$r8&& L wao Given the
“ 1 * t 'd of the 5th Texas Infantry
of two picked regiments—the 1st
5th—that Gen. Van Dorn had re
cently organized in Texas and sent on
Richmond. The two regiments were
Igaded under Gen. (Senator) Wigfall,
Texas, Wigfall resigned in March,
62, and returned to the Confederate
ingress and Hood succeeded him.
With Gen. Jos. E. Johnston’s other
forces the brigade moved to the help of
Magruder, gallantly, with 11,000 men,
resisting, step by step, the advances of
McClellan, with over 100,000, on the
Peninsula. In the subsequent retreat
from the Peninsula, Hood boldly attack
ed Gen. Franklin’s Federal foroes landed
at West Point, on York River, and
drove them to their gunboats. It was
his Texan’s first fight, and they did
honor to their State.
It was in the terrible battle of Gaines
Mill that Hood’s Texas brigade pre
eminently distinguished themselves.
Their last desperate charge up a hill, in
which they carried three lines of Fed-
1 breastworks, driving before them
opponents, infantry and artillery,
I finally, on the orest, though broken,
scattered a fierce and unexpected charge
of cavalry, showed of what metal they
were made. The charge was made by
the staff officers on foot, Hood leading,
sword in hand. Half the brigade fell
rushing down one hill entirely open
the Federal fire, and aoross a ravine
the foot, and then up the entrenched
hillside opposite; but not for a moment
did they stop. The next day Stone
wall JaokBon rode over the field and
exclaimed:
“These were Boldiers indeed I”
That inspired the survivors. Hood
was promoted to a Major-Generalship.
Hood’s division, as a part of Long-
street’s grand corps, took a brilliant
part in the second Manssas. They led
the charge in the two days’ fighting of
the corps, which ended so disastrously
for Pope.
In the first campaign in Maryland
that followed the second Manassas,
Hood’s division did Bplendid service,
first, in holding the mountain pass at
Boonesboro, with D. H. Hill, against
MoClellan’s whole army, until Long-
street’s men came np from the rear, Lee
leading them, and stopped the Federal
attack. At Sharpsburg, Hood again
and again took his men into fire, on
the Coniederate left, and beat back,
over and over, the heaviest charges.
In the great battle of Fredericksburg,
Hood’s division held the right of Long-
street’s corps, and were on Jackson’s
left. The Federals took possession of a
wooded position in front of Hood, but
he quickly drove them from it.
In the second Maryland campaigt
in June, 1863, Hood’s division still he!
the right of Longetreet’s corps, and at
Gettysburg distinguished itself in the
desperate charges made on Meade’s
left. The Texans at one time entered
and held a lofty, rooky point, that com
manded the Federal lines, but they
could not hold it long. Hood, who
was ever a leader, was severely wound
ed in the left arm. The limb, in fact,
was shattered and a piece of the bone
was extracted by the surgeons; and in
the retreat, being borne awey in a car
riage, he suffered greatly. For a long
time the limb was nearly useless, but
after awhile he oould oontrol it.
He did not give up his command
though. Resting awhile be resumed
the field, when, two months afteward
he accompanied Longetreet’s corps to
reinforce Bragg, then getting ready to
meet Rosencrans at Chickamauga. In
that celebrated battle Hood’s division
was on the left of the line, and during
the two days’ fighting was closely en
gaged, driving the brave soldiors of
Roseorans before them. Hood was, in
the second day’s fight, wounded in the
leg by the explosion of a shell. Am
putation was necessary; and it waa six
months ore the indomitable soldier
oould again take the field. Then he
received his commission as a Lieutenant-
General. ...
Early in 1864 he joined his corps, in
Gen. Joe Johnston’s splendid army, in
Northern Georgia. In the masterly
movements that followed, in whioh Joe
Johnstone aohieved the unsurpassed
feat of doing as muoh damage to his
foe by his manner of retreating as if he
had fought several battles, Hood, if we
remember right, commanded the rignt
wing. In July, at Atlanta, Gen. John
ston was. relieved and Hood was ap
pointed to succeed him in the command
[n his address to the troops, who deep
ly regretted Johneton’B lemoval, Hood
frankly and truthfully said:
“In obedience to orders from the War
Department I assume command of this
army and department. I feel the weight
of the responsibility so suddenly and
unexpectedly -devolved upon me "Y
this position, and shall bend all my en
ergies and employ oil my skill to meet
its requirements." ■.. ,
The VVar Department was not friend
ly to Johnston, it was generally be-
lioved, nor to his retreating Fabian pol
icy. Hood’s splendid field record was
eminently that of a fighting General,
and that was what the department
deemed was needod—fighting. 0n tb J®
20th of July, two days after he took
command, Hood attacked Sherman.
The fighting lasted for two days, was
stubborn and daring on
first
army, one part remaining entrenched
in Atlanta, and the other, - under Har
dee, entrenched at Jonesboro, over
twenty miles south of Atlanta. Sher
man had managed, meantime, to place
his army between the Confederate di
visions. Hardee attacked but failed,
and was attacked in return and com-
;>elled to retreat. Hood, still at Atlan
ta, finding he was outflanked and that
his position was untenable, determined
to evacuate Atlanta, whioh then fell
into Sherman’s hands.
' Hood was much censured for these
disastrous results, especially for sepa
rating hia army in presence of a superior
force, and for giving up Atlanta. He
doubtless had had his campaign mapped *
out for him from higher authority.
A short truce followed; and then
Hood commenced that memorable
movement into Tennessee, leaving Sher
man in his rear, that, because it ended
defeat, has been so much and so se
verely criticised. The movement met
the approval of President Davis, of
Gen. Bragg and, if we mistake not, of
Gen. Beauregard.
Since the war the writer of this, en
gaged frequently in friendly conversa
tion with the General about the conflict,
onoetook the liberty of asking him
why he made this movement. His re
ply was a question:
“Do you know what a forlorn hope
is, and what the duty and position of
the officer who leads it ?’’
The answer being in the affirmative.
“Then,” said he impressively, “I hove
nothing more to say.”
Towards the end of September, Hood
began his march northward. By the
middle of September, he was at Resaoa.
Agaid he moved north, and by the 22d
October hia whole army was in good
condition at Ringgold and Gadsden, and
Jacksonville, Ala., where Beauregard,
department commander, had his head-
S uorters. Entering Tusoumbia and
'lorence early in November, the Con
federates drove the Federal out of De
catur. Resting there awhile, the boys
gray then orossed the Tennessee at
Florence, the brave and distinguished
Gen. Thomas, commanding the Federal
forces, retei .ting towards Nashville.
Hood’s advance so far promised fruit
ful results. He matched from Pulaski
on the 23d November, towards Columbia.
There, by a happy flank movement, at
night, he made Thomas withdraw, and
but for the disobedience of orders oi
one his division oommanders, he would
have captured the entire Federal rear
guard.
A desperate battle was fought at
Franklin, Tenn., on the 30th November.
Hood’s men attacked the Federals in
their front line of intrenchments, and
drove them to the second, leaving their
killed and wounded, with many stands
of colors and many prisoners, in the
hands of the viotors. The Confederate
loss in officers was unusually large.
Their severest loss was in the death of
the gallant Cleburne, killed as he was
loading a oharge and leaping his horse
over the breastwork.
Hood advanced on Nashville, and
early in December olosely invested it.
At the end of a fortnight, the Federal
foroes, refreshed and reinforced, attack
ed him on the 15th of December, in the
morning, the attack being made on
both the Confederate fiankB. On the
right the Federals were repulsed, and
their loss was heavy; on the left, to
wards evening, they drovo in Hood’s
line of outposts. Early the next day
the Federal army attaoked Hood’s en
tire line. Every attack, and they were
fierce enough, for the men and officers
were veterrans—was repulsed, until late
in the day, when a part of Hood’s cen
tre line suddenly and most unexpected
ly gave way. We have heard it stated
that this was the same division that
gave way at the Chattanooga, when
Grant’s troops charged up the mountain
so suddenly and boldly and broke
Bragg’s lines. A Federal brigade, that
had been shrewdly held in reserve, saw
its opportunity and charged. The oth
Infallibly Cure all Skin and Scalp DU-
easea, Scaly Eruptloua, Itcblnga,
and Irritations.
Tho testimonials of perm&nont oures of Skin
and Soalp Dlaeuea, whioh have been the torture
of a lifetime, by tho Cutlonra Remedies, are
moro wonderful than any oxer beforo performed
. any methods or romadloi known to the med
ical profession.
Cutioura Resolvent, a powerful Bloed Purifier,
tho only purifying agent which finds ite way
Into the circulating fluid and thenoo through
the oil and sweat glands to tho surfaoe of the
•kin, thuB destroying tho poisonous elements
with whioh thoso vessels have been daily
charged,
Cutioura, Tho Croat Skin Cure, applied exter
nally, arrests aU unnatural or morbid growths
whioh cover the surface of the diseased glands
and tubes with Boaly, Itohiug and Irritating
Humors, speedily it removes them, leaving the
lores open, healthy and free from diseased par-
tcles of matter.
Thus internally and externally do thoso groat
remedies aot in oonjunotion, performing ouros
that have astonished.tho most noted physicians
of the day.
ALT RHBDM~F0R 30 YEARS
On the Head, Face and Greater Part of
the Body, Cured.
Messrs. Weeks k Potter i Gontlomon—I have
been a great sufferer with Salt Rhenm for 80
years, oommenoing in my head and faoe and
extending over the greater part of uiy body. I
have taken gallons of medicines for tbs blood of
different kinds and trisd good physioians, all of
whioh did me no good, ana I came to the conclu
sion that I oould not bo oured. Bat a friend
called my attention to an artiole in the Union
•kin diseases, and I got a box of Cutioura.
L3USUC,
The first applloatii
ik the
oined in the oharge, and Hood, who
iad viotory in his grasp, in a few mo
ments saw his lines broken. The men,
bleeding and fatigued, fell back rapidly,
and Hood was compelled to retreat,
losing a large part of his artillery, ord
nance wagons and other supplies. The
retreat, in deep winter, was the cause of
much physical suffering to the Confed
erate soldiers, who had commenced the
campaign bo hopefully, had fought so
splendidly, and had now lost all. Gen
oral Forrest covered the retreat oi
Hood, and his broken command leoross
ed the Tennessee at Florence. At Tu
pelo, Miss., Hood was relieved of the
command, at his own request. In »
farewell address to his soldiers,
thanked them warmly for their courage
in battle, and for the patience with
whioh they had endured the extreme
hardships of the campaign. He, with
characteristic nobility of spirit, assumed
all the responsibility for the conception
of the oampaign. “I strove hard,” he
said, “to do my duty in its execution.
To to his duty; that was this splendid
soldier’s rule of conduct.
since the war
After the dose of the wnr General
Hood established himself In business
in this oity, first as the senior partner of
the cotton faotorage and commission
house of J. B. Hood & Co., of which F.
N. Thayer and tho late J. C. Barelli
* stl .a •'I - IlsiTvJ l_ J JhJ'. ' — — IViam m
of
the losses were severe. Hood
the advantage. In a weejt Hood again ^ the other partners ; and then
attacked Sherman, who was oompelle p reai( j ent of t tj 0 Lo Ul8 iana Branch
to withdraw before the the Life Insurance Assooiationof Amer-
Various sharp engagements fo.lowod, wlth headquarters at St Louis,
whioh ended in He of late engaged m various enter-
(Concluded on Fourth Page.)
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We think it is a wonderful euro,
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