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| General John Bell Hood |
SPECIAL ORDERS, ADJT. AND INSPECTOR GENERAL'S OFFICE,
Richmond, February 9, 1864.
Numbers 33.
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XIV. Lieutenant General J. B. Hood will proceed without delay to Dalton, Ga., and report to General Joseph E. Johnston, commanding, for assignment to the command of an army corps.
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By command of the Secretary of War:
JOHN WITHERS,
Assistant Adjutant-General.
Official Records, Series I., Vol. 32, Part 2, Page 699.
Hood, coming off a long recovery from wounds received at Gettysburg and Chickamauga accepted a corp command under Johnston. Hood had served under Johnston earlier in the war in the Peninsula Campaign. Jefferson Davis had come to know Hood during his convalesence in Richmond and admired the young officer. The decision was not without critics, given Hood's injuries and relative youth (33).
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