John Bell Hood

An award-winning biography of one of the Confederacy’s most successful—and most criticized—generals.   Winner of the 2014 Albert Castel Book Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman Award   John Bell Hood died at forty-eight after a brief illness in August 1879, leaving behind the first draft of his memoirs, Advance and Retreat: Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate States Armies . Published posthumously the following year, the memoirs immediately became as controversial as