In Popular Media
In the movies Gods and Generals and Gettysburg, Hood was portrayed by actor Patrick Gorman.
The basic premise of the 1988 alternate history novel Gray Victory by Robert Skimin is that Hood's decision to leave the defenses of Atlanta and make a disastrous attack upon the Union forces had cost the South its last chance to win the war.
In the 2008 film In the Electric Mist, actor Levon Helm portrays General John Bell Hood, as a ghost who appears to detective Dave Robicheaux (played by Tommy Lee Jones).
The 2009 novel A Separate Country, by Robert Hicks, focuses on Hood's life after the Civil War.
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