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Rh 1798. His father, an English physician who had settled in Leicester, was killed at Ticonderoga in 1776 while surgeon in the army, leaving his son destitute. He was educated by friends, and was graduated at Yale in 1782. In 1783-4 he taught m an academy in Schenectady, X. Y., after which he studied law in Albany, and practised in Salem, N. Y., during the remainder of his life. He was one of the presidential electors that chose John Adams as the successor of Washington. His poems, which treat of Washington's declension of a third term, Shays's rebellion, and other political topics, were published after his death (Xew York, 1801).

HOOD, George, author, b. about 1815; d. in Philadelphia, 18 May, 1869. He was business mana- ger of the Philadelphia academy of music, and au- thor of a "History of Music in New England " {Boston, 1846). This was the first work published in this country that contained a connected history of psalmody from the landing of the Pilgrims. The work also contained sketches of reformers and of the early psalmists.

HOOD, James Walker, A. M. E. bishop, b. in Kennett township, Chester co., Pa., 30 May, 1831. His family was included in the thirteen that found- ed a separate colored Methodist church in Wilming- ton, Del., in 1813. Subsequently his father lived upon a farm owned by Ephraim Jackson, to whom he verbally bound his children. In 1860 James was made deacon and sent as a missionary to Nova Scotia, serving there again after being or- dained elder in 1862. In 1863 he was stationed in Bridgeport, Conn., and in that year sent to Xorth Carolina as the first colored missionary to the freedmen of the south. He was a member of the reconstruction conventions of Xorth Carolina in 1867-'8, and assistant superintendent of public in- struction from 1868 till 1871. He was consecrated bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church in 1872, and presided at one session of the Centen- nial conference in Baltimore, Md., in 1885. He has devoted his attention to church work, building five hundred churches in twenty years, and has held many offices in benevolent associations. Lin- coln university, Lincoln, 111., gave him the degree of D. D. in 1887. Dr. Hood has edited " The Xe- gro in the Christian Pulpit," a volume of sermons <Raleigh, N. C, 1884).

HOOD, John Bell, soldier, b. in Owenville, Bath co., Ky., 1 June, 1831 ; d. in Xew Orleans, La., 30 Aug., 1879. He was graduated at the U. S. military academy in 1853, and, after serv- ing two years in Cal- ifornia, was trans- ferred in 1855 to the 2d cavalry, of which Albert Sidney John- ston was colonel and Robert E. Lee lieu- tenant-colonel. In the fight at Devil's Run with the Co- manche and Lipian Indians, in July, 1857, he was severely wounded in a hand- to - hand encounter with a savage. He was promoted 1st lieutenant in 1858, and was cavalry instructor at the military academy in 1859-60. At the be- ginning of the civil war he resigned his com- mission, and, entering the Confederate army, rose to the rank of colonel, and, after a short service in the peninsula, was appointed brigadier-gen- eral of the Texas brigade. He was then ordered back to the peninsula, was engaged at West Point, and, while leading his men on foot at Gaines's Mill, was shot in the body. In this battle his brigade lost more than half its number, and Hood was brevetted major-general on the field. He served in both Maryland campaigns, was en- gaged in the second battle of Bull Run and those of Boonesborough, Fredericksburg, and Antietam, and was a second time severely wounded at Get- tysburg, losing the use of his arm. Two months later he re-joined his command, and was ordered to Tennessee to re-enforce Gen. Braxton Bragg. During the second day's fight at Chickamauga, seeing the line of his brigade waver, he rode to the front, and demanded the colors. The Texans rallied and charged, and Hood, at the head of the column, was again shot down. This wound neces- sitated the loss of his right leg, and while in hos- pital he was offered a civil appointment, which he refused, saying: "No bomb-proof place for me; I propose to see this fight out in the field." Six months later he returned to duty, and in the spring of 1864 commanded a corps in Gen. Joseph E. Johnston's army, fighting through the retreat from Dalton to Atlanta. In obedience to an order of Jefferson Davis he succeeded Johnston in the com- mand on 8 July, 1864, and, after several days of stubborn fighting, was completely outflanked by Gen. William T. Sherman, and compelled to evacu- ate Atlanta, leaving Sherman in the rear, and en- abling him to make his march to the sea. Hood then began a counter-movement into Tennessee. He compelled the evacuation of Decatur in Xovember, crossed the Tennessee, and on the 30th of this month was defeated by Gen. John M. Schofield at Franklin. On. 16 Dec. he was again disastrously defeated at Xashville by Gen. George H. Thomas, and after this battle, at his own request, was re- lieved of command and succeeded by Gen. Richard Taylor. On the termination of the war he engaged in business as a commission-merchant in Xew Or- leans, and was also president of the Louisiana branch of the Life association of America, acquir- ing a competency, which was afterward lost in trade. During the yellow-fever epidemic of 1879 his wife and eldest child died within a few hours of each other, and Hood also succumbed to the dis- ease. He is the author of " Advance and Retreat, Personal Experiences in the United States and Confederate Armies " (Xew Orleans, 1880).

HOOD, Samuel, Viscount, British naval officer, b. in Butleigh, Somersetshire, England, 12 Dec, 1724; d. in Bath, 27 Jan., 1816. He entered the navy at the age of sixteen, and became a post-captain in 1756. In 1759, when in command of the " Vestal." attached to the expedition against Quebec, he captured the French frigate " Bellona " after an action of four hours. On his return to England he was given the command of the "Africa," of sixty-four guns. From 14 Nov., 1768, till 13 July. 1769, he was at Boston, then occupied by British troops, as " commander-in-chief of all the men-of-war in these parts." During this time he was a member of the committee of inquiry in the affair of the " Rose " frigate, of which occasion John Adams said that "he had never taken such pains before or since in any trial as he did on this to clear the accused." In 1778 he was made a baronet, in 1780 rear-admiral of the blue, and the same year joined Rodney in the West Indies. He fought a drawn battle with De Grasse, near Chesapeake bay, 5 Sept., 1781, but could not prevent its blockade nor the surrender of the Brit-