Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) Section - West Point I know you will do

I know you will do your duty

Powell was wounded and captured on the slope of the rocky hill and was not paroled until weeks before the end of the war

as he put it

Lincoln and the Military (Concise Lincoln Library)

Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hood's "Slight Demonstration" at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign (Noel Carpenter - CWC) Section - West Point I know you will doby Noel Carpenter In October of 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood set out through Alabama on what would be the final campaign of the Army of Tennessee. One event in particular, overlooked and misunderstood for generations, portended what was to follow and is the subject of Noel Carpenters Detour to Disaster: General John Bell Hoods Slight Demonstration at Decatur and the Unravelling of the Tennessee Campaign. By late 1864, Hoods army of