Snake Featherston
Banned
Yeah. Thomas may not be much more objective than the average bear, but there's a difference between being partial (and feeling justifiably proud of one's accomplishments) and...well, honestly Hood seems to have gone psycho in late 1864. Around Atlanta was bad enough...but I digress.
Unfortunately Hood lacked very many good options, and the one he took had some degree of chances to work. A victory against Schofield would have improved the odds for later on, but as it turned out his plan was a direct copy of Lee's on the third day at Gettysburg and worked even less effectively in the West.
More unfortunately Hood followed Lee's pattern of headlong charges against superior numbers and firepower against better tacticians as opposed to bumbling idiots like Pope or McClellan.
Interesting. Somehow Koba is harder to take seriously as the Evil Communist Leader of Evil. Probably sounds better in Russian, but still...
It's not like very many people took Hitler seriously until he started doing exactly what he said he was going to do.
Georgian, actually: he took the name from a heroic lawbreaker in a late-19th century Georgian novel.
Of course, in Russian pretty much everybody is known to close friends by a more-or-less adorable diminutive, no matter how many people they send to Siberia.
And it'd be more likely as the title of his memoirs given he was involved in revolutionary politics all the way back into 1905 and spent a lot of that time robbing banks to fill the Bolshies' coffers.