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Jacobson has been one of only a few contemporary Army of Tennessee historians to give Hood the benefit of fatigue, fog of war and failures of subordinates as part of the breakdown of the Army of Tennessee in late 1864. Some of the items found include recommendations for promotion, handwritten by Stonewall Jackson and James Longstreet. Also uncovered was wartime correspondence between General Hood and generals R. E. Lee, Braxton Bragg, Louis T. Wigfall, and other senior commanders as well, as his four general officer commission papers. Roughly seventy post-war letters from other Civil War notables were also discovered, mostly concerning the controversy with Confederate General Joseph E. Johnston and used to compose Hood's memoir Advance & Retreat. Hood added, This is just the tip of the iceberg on the expansive collection. I spent three days photocopying and inventorying, added Sam Hood. I held in my hands documents signed by Jefferson Davis, Longstreet, Jackson and Lee. Keith Bohannon, professor of history at the University of West Georgia, says most of Hoods biographers assumed that Hoods papers, other than those known to be archived, were lost or destroyed. Some of John Bell Hoods official papers were presumably sold to the Federal government near the time of his death in 1879, Bohannon said. Hood and his wife, Anna Marie, both died in New Orleans from yellow fever and left behind ten orphaned children. Before his death at age 48, Hood was in poor financial condition and was working to sell this information to better the financial plight of his family, according to Bohannon. I have been fighting to correct some of the misperceptions and vicious myths of General Hood for years, added Sam Hood. These documents will shed a lot of light that will change some of those views.
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