Charles Perkins
John H. Rice
Henry A. Glassford
George J. Groves
Edmond Morgan
John B. Hood
John Bell Hood was a Confederate general during the Civil War, known for his aggressive tactics as a division and corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia before taking command of the Army of Tennessee in 1864. He led the disastrous Franklin-Nashville Campaign that effectively destroyed his army. He was born in Kentucky in […]
Melancthon Smith
Melancthon Smith, a graduate of the United States Military Academy, served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the Civil War, commanding artillery with the Army of Tennessee in the Western Theater. After the war he worked as a journalist. He was born in 1829 and died in 1881.
Benjamin F. Cheatham
Benjamin Franklin Cheatham was a Confederate general who served throughout the war with the Army of Tennessee, inflicting heavy casualties on Sherman’s forces at Kennesaw Mountain in 1864. He was widely blamed for allowing Union General Schofield’s army to escape at Spring Hill, a lapse that contributed to the Confederate defeat at Franklin. After the […]