Episodes Located: HANOVER, Virginia in the 1860's

  1. Hood and His Texans at the Battle Gainess Mills
    date June 27, 1862map HANOVER, Virginiatags War

    Courageously "march[ing] under a constantly increasing shower of shot and shell," General John Bell Hood and his fighting Texans battled their war towards a Union embankment and on to glory. The stage was the Battle of Gaines's Mills on June 27th, 1862, and it was up to Hood and his men to lead the charge to Confederate victory. This was the battle, as Hood describes it in his memoir, which launched...