![]() ![]() Hood County, Texas is named in his honor.He lost his oldest child, his wife and his life, leaving 10 destitute orphans. He fathered 11 children, but was ruined by the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878-79. He lost 23,500 men out of 38,000 soldiers, 20,000 at Atlanta alone.Īfter the war, he moved to Louisiana and became a cotton broker and life insurance business. He tried to besiege Nashville Tennessee but was decisively beaten. At the battle of Franklin Tennessee he made a massive frontal assault without the support of artillery and lost 12 generals. At Atlanta he dissipated his army in a series of bold but fruitless assaults. ![]() ![]() Jefferson Davis promoted him to command of the army of Tennessee, because he wanted someone who would fight. He suffered a fractured femur at Chickamauga and had his leg amputated. He was severely wounded at Gettysburg and lost the use of his arm. He was one of the best brigade and division commanders, with a reputation for bravery and aggressiveness bordering on recklessness. He almost didn't graduate because of excessive demerits. John Hood was Wounded in Action during the United States Civil War.Ī cousin to Confederate General G. ![]()
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![]() Mercedes’ himself) perhaps isn’t the harmless, comatose victim of that traumatic brain injury after all. The getting-on Bill Hodges still runs the ‘Finders Keepers’ private investigation firm with the idiosyncratic but formidably tough Holly Gibney, and while dealing with some serious personal problems, he becomes increasingly aware of the frightening fact that Brady Hartsfield (‘Mr. ![]() ![]() ![]() Mercedes (released a mere two years ago) and Finders Keepers, and it’s a possibly stand-alone entry that finally tips over into horror territory after the more thriller-cum-psychodramatic-character-study-type first two installments. The impossibly prolific King concludes his ‘Hodges Trilogy’ with this follow-up to Mr. Stephen King (Hachette Australia) 2016, 354pp, RRP $32.99 ![]() ![]() ![]() Ultimately, this adolescent is 5.6 times more likely to drop out of school and less likely to attend a four-year college than a White adolescent. By fourth grade, this child is four times less likely to read at grade level and is likely to live in a neighborhood with twice the concentration of liquor stores and more fast food outlets. As a toddler, this child is 2.5 times more likely to be behind in vaccinations. ![]() ![]() “Compared with a White child in the Oakland Hills, an African American born in West Oakland is 1.5 times more likely to be born premature or low birth weight, seven times more likely to be born into poverty, twice as likely to live in a home that is rented, and four times more likely to have parents with only a high school education or less. The work of righting the wrongs of slavery is not yet done. But systemic forms of discrimination, such as police brutality and substandard schools in minority neighborhoods, continue with powerful negative effects. King gave this speech, some overt forms of racial discrimination in the United States have lessened. Website Editor’s comment: Why should we listen to this speech today? In the fifty years since Dr. ![]() |