Identifier: americanauniver08beac (find matches)
Title: The Americana : a universal reference library, comprising the arts and sciences, literature, history, biography, geography, commerce, etc. of the world
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Beach, Frederick Converse, 1848-1918 Rines, George Edwin, 1860-
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: New York : Scientific American Compiling Dept.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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s the chief representative ofDutch genre painting, and his specialty was the delineation of Dutch interiors, with their semi-darkness, suffused by the witchery of sunlight.Sometimes he set out two or more rooms in per-spective, the vista of which was drawn and litup with extraordinary skill. Hood, John Bell, American soldier: b.Owingsville, Ky., 29 June 1831; d. New Or-leans, La., 30 Aug. 1879. He was graduated at West Point in 1853, and bore a commission inthe United States Army till 1861 when he joined the army of secession. The part he took in the Virginia campaign gained for him the rank ofmajor-general, and at Gettysburg his divisionmade a gallant record in its position at the ex-treme right of the Confederate line. He took part in the battle of Chickamauga on 19-20 Sept.1863, having come to Tennessee to the supportof General Bragg. When General Johnston was endeavoring in the spring of 1864 to impede Shermans advance on Atlanta, Hood was a lieutenant-general in his army and his corps on
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IMAGE: The Harbor of Honolulu. -t -1o o HOOD JJ May 1804, was attacked by Hooker at NewHope Church He succeeded Johnston the fol-lowing July in the command of the Army of Tennessee, fought the battle of Peach Creek with Sherman 20 July 1864, but was compelledto retire behind the fortifications of Atlanta.Alter the battle of Jonesboro he retired from Atlanta, which was entered by Sherman. Hisattack on the forces under Schofield at Franklin being repulsed, he proceeded to Nashville,where he met General Thomas. Thomas ad-vanced from his entrenchments on IS December,and a two-days battle ensued. Federal prep-aration had been carefully and deliberatelymade. A general attack on the afternoon of16 December caused the entire Confederate lineto give way. Soon Hoods army was in fullretreat toward Franklin, the larger part of itin great confusion, according to Hoods offi-cial report. After a nine-days pursuit by theFederals, the remnant of the Confederates, nowlargely disintegrated, crossed the Tennessee.Hood, at his request,

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