Dallas students to vote on dropping Confederate general’s name from school (TX)

[struggle4progress]

Tawnell D. Hobbs
Published: February 4, 2016 7:20 pm

Confederate General John B. Hood could have his name stripped from a Pleasant Grove middle school if enough students vote Friday to move forward with efforts to change its name.

It’s the first time a Dallas ISD campus has formally initiated steps that could lead to a Confederate soldier’s name being removed from a school.

The change would still require final approval from the Dallas ISD Board of Trustees. Trustee Bernadette Nutall, whose area includes Hood, says she’s in support of changing the name.

LaTonya Lockhart, principal at Hood, said the process began after students voiced concern about the name and asked a teacher about changing it ...

http://educationblog.dallasnews.com/2016/02/dallas-students-to-vote-on-dropping-confederate-generals-name-from-their-school.html/

[Yupster]

1. Hood was an interesting case study

of a very good general who was promoted over his head.

As a brigadier general he led the famed Texas Brigade in Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and performed very well with a slashing, attacking style.

Promoted to command one of Lee's nine divisions at Gettysburg, he was ordered to attack the Union's left flank. When he got there he found that the Union was occupying Little Round Top. He three times asked to go around the flank rather than attack the occupied mountains, but was rebuffed by his Corps commander. He drove his division into a furious attack that savaged a Union Corps, but couldn't take the mountains. He was seriously wounded in the effort.

In front of Atlanta, he was promoted above his competency to command of the Confederacy's second largest army. With Sherman's much larger army closing in on Atlanta, he ordered a series of hopeless attacks which cost him much of his army and then he had to evacuate Atlanta.

He then went behind Sherman's Army to cut his supplies in a very nice campaign which ended in disaster when he couldn't resist two frontal assaults in Tennessee that utterly destroyed his reduced army and completely lost the west while Sherman was making Georgia howl.

A fine general who was promoted above his competency.