This collection offers more than 200 documents from the invaluable cache of Confederate General John Bell Hood's personal papers; including wartime and postwar letters from comrades, subordinates, former enemies and friends, medical reports, and dozens of touching letters exchanged between Hood and his wife, Anna. Historians have spent generations speculating about Hood s motives, beliefs, and objectives. Now, firsthand accounts previously unavailable offer insights into John Bell Hood as general, husband, and father.