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 LIEUTENANT-GENERAL JOHN B. HOOD.

Lieutenant-General John B. Hood was born in Owensville, Bath county, Kentucky, June 29th, 1831, and was brought up at Mount Sterling, Montgomery county. He entered upon his collegiate course at West Point in 1849, and graduated in 1853. He was then assigned to duty in the Fourth Infantry in California, where he served twenty-two months. When the two new regiments, raised by Jefferson Davis, then Secretary of War, were called out, he was transferred July, 1855, to the one (Second Cavalry) in which General Albert Sidney Johnston, whe fell at Shiloh, was in command, and General R. E. Lee, the lieutenant-colonel. This regiment furnished many valuable officers