Hood was far more aggressive
Atlanta was an important city for the Confederacy to hold, and armies under the command of Union General William T. Sherman were pressing on towards that city. Jefferson Davis believed that General John B. Hood could do a more effective job then Johnston. Davis replaced Johnston on July 17, 1864.
Confederate General Johnston was badly wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. Aside from that, Lee was the better General. Johnston gave up ground when he did not have to, and he did not work and play well with others.
On July 17, 1864 President Jefferson Davis replaced General Joseph Johnston with General John Hood. US General William Sherman would now face General Bell and his name was familiar to Sherman. He asked one of Hood's classmates at West Point, General Schofield, about the abilities of Hood. Schofield's answer was not pleasing to Sherman in that the response was that Hood was a man of reckless courage.
General Robert E. Lee was appointed to replace the wounded General Joseph Johnston on June 1, 1862. The Confederate forces he led would soon be called the Army of Northern Virginia. Immediately prior to this assignment, Lee had been a military advisor to President Jefferson Davis.
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Atlanta was an important city for the Confederacy to hold, and armies under the command of Union General William T. Sherman were pressing on towards that city. Jefferson Davis believed that General John B. Hood could do a more effective job then Johnston. Davis replaced Johnston on July 17, 1864.
Confederate General Johnston was badly wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines. Aside from that, Lee was the better General. Johnston gave up ground when he did not have to, and he did not work and play well with others.
On July 17, 1864 President Jefferson Davis replaced General Joseph Johnston with General John Hood. US General William Sherman would now face General Bell and his name was familiar to Sherman. He asked one of Hood's classmates at West Point, General Schofield, about the abilities of Hood. Schofield's answer was not pleasing to Sherman in that the response was that Hood was a man of reckless courage.
During the first part of the Atlanta Campaign (May - July 1864), Joseph Johnston's Confederate Army of the Tennessee carried forward a temporizer tactic, aiming to delay as much as possible the advance of the Union towards Atlanta, by means of strategic retreats alternated by defensive battles engaged from strong positions. Johnston's task was that to make very costly for the Union, in terms of losses, waste of time end a dangerous lengthening of the communication line, every enemy progress. He succeeded in getting close to Atlanta maintaining his army practically intact in order to use its strong fortified camp as a pivot to carry forward his war of maneuver. Namely what Lee was doing near Richmond. That would have given to Johnston the opportunity to earn three or four additional months and deprive Sherman of the coveted victory, indispensable to strengthen the tottering position of Lincoln government. But Jefferson Davis saw the situation as a dangerous one, because of the great loss of territory and the enemy deployed about 10 kilometers next to the city. Indeed the situation was like that of Richmond. But Richmond was defended by Lee whom Davis had the utmost confidence, while Atlanta was defended by Johnston, that he did not love instead and (wrongly) not estimated. Therefore Davis, in spite of the decidedly negative opinion expressed by Lee , decided to replace "Old Joe" by Hood. That led to the start of the second part of Atlanta Campaign, that saw the Confederates adopting an "all out combat", offensive strategy, which could avoid neither the fall of Atlanta nor the huge losses, very hardly if not impossible, to replace, in terms of material and men, imputable to the same. On the night of September 2, 1864, Hood evacuated Atlanta to save the remaining of his defeated army. Furthermore, the Union victory was an important step towards another one: that of Lincoln at the presidential election in fall.
General Robert E. Lee was appointed to replace the wounded General Joseph Johnston on June 1, 1862. The Confederate forces he led would soon be called the Army of Northern Virginia. Immediately prior to this assignment, Lee had been a military advisor to President Jefferson Davis.
Joseph Johnston elusive strategy aimed to maintain intact as far as possible the Confederate Army of Tennessee, irrespective what it would cost in terms of lost of territory, included Atlanta. Davis' decision led to adopt an all costs offensive strategy by the new Army's Commander, John Bell Hood, whose outcomes were: 1) the seize of Atlanta by the Union, 2) awful losses sustained by Army of Tennessee, which was badly weakened. 3) the scattering of the same Army, which was no more able to effectively face Sherman's. 4) the demoralization of the Confederate combatants and home front.
When General Lee was called to replace the wounded Joseph Johnston to stop the Union's Peninsula campaign, he left General Gustavus W. Smith to defend Richmond. Smith was ready having recovered from an illness in early June 1862.
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