Stephen Hood

The author Stephen Hood a great-great-great nephew to John Bell Hood makes a great case on refuting some of the myths about Hood. From his documentation he has redeemed Hood's reputation on many of the issues that previous historians have poorly researched. His findings and his telling of his research has not won him any friends since it brings to light that some of the noted historians obviously didn't do their homework or embellished the story so that it was more readable. I now have a different opinion of Hood than I did before. The real moral is that these historians should not take previous works at face value and should do their own research to verify that they are really telling history as it happened. Otherwise they may find they have fiction instead of history.… (mer)