JBHHS Recommended Reading List:

Recommended Reading List

Biographies:

"The Gallant Hood"
by John P. Dyer, Konecky and Konecky, 1950

"Hood: Cavalier General"
by Richard O'Connor, Prentice-Hall, 1949

"John Bell Hood and the War For Southern Independence"
by Richard McMurry, Lexington KY, 1982

Autobiography:

"Advance and Retreat"
by John B. Hood, Blue and Grey Press, 1985

Hood's 1864 Tennessee Campaign:

"For Cause and For Country: A Study of the Affair at Spring Hill and the Battle of Franklin"
by Eric Jacobson

"Hood's Tennessee Campaign"
by Thomas R. Hay

"The Battle of Spring Hill: Twenty Five Hours To Tragedy"
by Jamie Gillum

(Note: Available only at the Carter House bookstore, Franklin TN)

"Shrouds Of Glory"
by Winston Groom, Atlantic Press, 1995

Atlanta Campaign:

"Atlanta Will Fall"
by Stephen Davis, SR Books, Wilmington DE, 2001

"John Bell Hood and the Struggle for Atlanta"
by David Coffey, McWhiney Foundation Press, 1998

"Atlanta 1864, Last Chance For The Confederacy"
by Richard McMurry, University of Nebraska Press, 2000

Miscellaneous:

"Hood's Texas Brigade: Lee's Grenadier Guard"
by Harold B. Simpson, Landmark, 1999

"Company Aytch"
by Sam Watkins, edited by Thomas Inge, Plume Books, New York, 1999

"Millstream"
a collection of original Civil War poetry
by Oliver C. Hood, 1stBooks Library, June 2000