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Nsue and the honeyguide.(Short story)
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Silently he crept through jagged thornbushes. Bare feet moved swiftly over hot, arid soil to the edge of a waterhole where the kudu was drinking. The great animal suddenly looked up, spiral horns curving sharply into the endless African sky. Nsue (neh-SOO-ee) did not reach for his pouch of poisoned arrows. He had no heart for killing. This would not be the day he would change his childish boyhood name.
Nsue left the salt pan and climbed the barren hillside to the cool twilight of the rock caves. Tonight would be the Festival of the New ...
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John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today
; ...explored by Richard M. McMurry in John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence...scholarly estimate, McMurry shows that Hood was a success as a brigade commander...failure as an army commander. But Hood played a pivotal role in both the...
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War graph: John Bell Hood's 1864 Tennessee campaign.(CIVIL WAR TODAY)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Civil War Times
; ...ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] In the fall of 1864, Lt. Gen. John Bell Hood decided against pursuing General Sherman through Georgia and moved north. Hood's effort was in vain, however. In two month's time...
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KENNESAW MOUNTAIN NATIONAL BATTLEFIELD PARK PRESENTS 'JOHN BELL HOOD AND THE BATTLES FOR ATLANTA' ON MARCH 19
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News
; ...Battlefield Park is presenting a program entitled, "John Bell Hood and the Battles for Atlanta." The program is given by...will discuss recent scholarship that is more favorable of Hood's attempts in the Atlanta Campaign. Many argue that...
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John Bell Hood and the War for Southern Independence.
Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly
; McMurr'y's Hood is a man whose military development was forever...from their earlier nationalism. In addition, Hood revered Robert E. Lee, the model of the Southern myth of chivalry. Thus, Hood was essentially a romantic in a conflict that...
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Gen. Hood unlucky in battle, unlucky in love.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood was a fighter who acquired...s chief surgeon, Dr. John Darby, and it was he who...It is small wonder that Hood was captivated. Sarah Preston...She was the daughter of John Smith Preston and Caroline...
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The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaiens of 1864
Magazine article from: South Carolina Historical Magazine
; ...The Chessboard of War: Sherman and Hood in the Autumn Campaiens of 1864...to the Sea and Confederate General John Bell Hood's march to Tennessee. The two...after the Union capture of the city Hood's army headed westward to Tennessee...
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The Social and Cultural Dynamics of Soldiering in Hood's Texas Brigade.
Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History
; ...Infantry Regiment purchased a horse for General John Bell Hood, commander of what came to be known as Hood's Texas Brigade. Later, as the regiment...M. Bookman presented the horse to General Hood. "Sir: In behalf of the non-commissioned...
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1824 clash leaves enduring stain on hood.(Saturday)(The Civil War)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times
; ...1864, Confederate Maj. Gen. John Bell Hood had a career-making victory awaiting...battle of Spring Hill, the fight by Hood's subordinates, particularly Maj...force between the federal forces of John Schofield, in Pulaski, Tenn...
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12 dead in Fort Hood shootings.
News Wire article from: UPI Energy Resources
; ...shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, officials said...Robert W. Cone, the Fort Hood base commander. Hasan was...Hospital on the sprawling Fort Hood. He apparently was upset...Fort Hood is named for John Bell Hood, a Confederate Army...
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 "The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)")
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Bush tells Fort Hood soldiers of `grave threat' from Iraq.
Newspaper article from: The Dallas Morning News (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)
; ...Byline: David Jackson FORT HOOD, Texas _ President Bush...Bush's visit to Fort Hood _ the Army's most-populated...troops would come from Fort Hood, whose 340 square miles...named for Confederate Gen. John Bell Hood and home briefly to...
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