Death of General Hood at Gettysburg

Confederate general John Bell Hood was injured by an artillery shot at Gettysburg. In OTL this badly injured his left arm, but what if it had killed him? Changes on the western theater would be quite notable, he is the man who lost Atlanta after all.
 
The Army of Tennessee doesn't get wasted in a series of colorful yet pointless attacks, notably the debacles at Franklin and Nashville? If nothing else, a large number of Confederate soldiers might get a chance to survive the war.
 

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Before considering Atlanta, there would be a lot of changes to the TL considering Hood's crucial role at Chickamauga.
 

Anaxagoras

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I think the question is who replaces Hood, and who replaces Johnston, assuming he still gets sacked by Davis.

Assuming that the butterflies caused by Hood's death a year earlier somehow don't impact events sufficiently to change the course of the war and that the situation in the summer of 1864 is still that of OTL (an unlikely view, in my opinion), then the man to replace Johnston would obviously be Hardee.
 
Assuming that the butterflies caused by Hood's death a year earlier somehow don't impact events sufficiently to change the course of the war and that the situation in the summer of 1864 is still that of OTL (an unlikely view, in my opinion), then the man to replace Johnston would obviously be Hardee.
Would there be enough butterflies to have Longstreet transferred to the west? that is assuming if it happens as OTL.
 

Anaxagoras

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Would there be enough butterflies to have Longstreet transferred to the west? that is assuming if it happens as OTL.

I would imagine that Longstreet and his two divisions, with Hood's division now under the command of Evander Law or Micah Jenkins. But it's hard to say how the absence of Hood would affect events in the Western Theater in the fall of 1863.
 
The overall changes in the war would be noticeable, and I'm of the opinion that depending on what this means for Chickamauga Rosecrans might actually win the battle ala Stone's River (indecisive overall, Bragg controls the pace and timing of the battle, sustains heavy losses, and retreats).
 

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The overall changes in the war would be noticeable, and I'm of the opinion that depending on what this means for Chickamauga Rosecrans might actually win the battle ala Stone's River (indecisive overall, Bragg controls the pace and timing of the battle, sustains heavy losses, and retreats).

Oddly enough, this might be better for the Confederacy than the victory that occurred IOTL, since it would allow them to avoid the disaster at Missionary Ridge the following November.
 
Oddly enough, this might be better for the Confederacy than the victory that occurred IOTL, since it would allow them to avoid the disaster at Missionary Ridge the following November.

If the ATL Battle of Chickamauga leads to the death of Leonidas Polk it might even give Bragg a chance to lead his army without a backstabbing subordinate only able to be removed by a well-timed Yankee shell or bullet. :cool: Not that Bragg was necessarily *great*, mind, but Leonidas Backstabbing Asshole Polk as a general didn't exactly help matters.
 
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