dead, described the battles as armyt, and the moment my "myestroyed -- bemoaned, ,"my is destroyed hurra jack preston, who offered his residence, pulled mary aside to have a brief conversation. he did not hear a word she was saying, he has forgotten us all. did you notice how he stared into the fire? the huge drops of perspiration that stood out on his four head? yes, he is going over some bitter hours. he fills the panic at nashville. jack preston pushed further. face comesn his again and again. i cannot keep them out of those absent fits. he looks in the fire and forget me. what had happened to john bell hood, who has been described by many historians as not the brightest bulb in the confederate chandelier. he showed a lot of promise as he brigade. roughly six months after receiving command of the army of tennessee, i he rested on his crutches and stood amongst his ,riends as a battered, defeated and broken man. my talk today will try to chronicle the history, but more importantly the memory, of his ill-fated tennessee campaign. i come to you today as a bagger for, -- a biographer, who