USA HISTORY

RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1877

RECONSTRUCTIONS EFFECTS ON AFRICAN AMERICANS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This Texas individual was fearless, aggressive, and the leader of the “Texas Brigade” in Robert E. Lee’s army?
A
John Bell Hood
B
Francis Lubbock
C
John Reagan
D
Sam Houston
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Gen. Jerome B. Robertson became brigade commander, and Hood was elevated to command of the division in which the Texas Brigade operated.

Detailed explanation-2: -John Bell Hood was a U.S. military officer who served as a Confederate general during the Civil War (1861-65). A graduate of West Point, Hood joined the Confederacy in 1861 and gained a reputation as a talented field commander during the Peninsula Campaign and the Second Battle of Bull Run in 1862.

Detailed explanation-3: -By 1862, the Texas brigade, under the command of General Hood, was comprised of four regiments: the 1st, 4th, 5th Texas, and the 18th Georgia, with a strength of more than 2, 000 men. The summer campaign of 1862 was an arduous one for the Army of Northern Virginia.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Fourth Texas Infantry was one of the three Texas Civil War regiments in the Texas Brigade of Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia. In 1861 Governor Edward Clark established a camp of instruction on the San Marcos River in Hays County.

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