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Hood's brigade started in texas with the 1st, 4th, and 5th infantry divisions
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the 18th infantry division from georgia joins the brigade
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General Wigfel resigned and John Hood Bell was promoted to brigadeir general. thus the name Hood's Brigade
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18 companies from the wade hamption south carolina legion joined the brigade
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the battle of sharpsburg was the first battle in union soil with roughly 23,000 casualties. the brigade was under the command of General Longstreet. the brigade and the rest of the confederate armies won this day and continued to retreat back into
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The third arkansas division joins the brigade
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John hood bell was promoted to commander of the division the brigade was working wiith at the time, Jerome Robertson was the new brigadeir general
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the georgia and all the south carolina divisions withdrawn from the brigade leaving the 1st, 4th, and 5th texas infantry and the 3rd arkansas infantry
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in the second day of the battle of gettysburg the texas brigade broke off from General hills corps to attack sickles III corps and won that battle in that evening. this brigade was under the command of general Longstreet under his 1st corps during this battle.
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in the battle for Chickamauga John bell was injured and could no longer lead the division. this lead to the promotion of John Gregg to lead the brigade
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the battle of chickamauge was a battle in northern georgia under the command of general bragg for the south and general rosecrans for the union. early morning on september 20th John Hood Bell was sent in with his brigade to search the forest and was cought in a small hole in the union line and it caused a panic where john bell hood was injured. the south won this battle
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Robert E Lee personally takes command and leads the texas brigade in a battle of the wilderness
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at 6 A.M General longstreet arrived on the right flank with the texas brigade to reinforce the confederates at the battle of wilderness. the excited general Lee cried "Texans always push them back"
