As they relate to other battlefields, I really didn't wish to engage in a critique of Hood's decisions and plans. Now that you raise that subject, notice that John Bell Hood suddenly found himself in command of a major Confederate army defending an important city. In June 1862 Robert E. Lee found himself in a very similar position, something Hood surely recalled as a brigade commander in the Seven Days Battles. As Lee came out of the Richmond defenses to attack McClellan, Hood planned along similar lines to deliver Atlanta from Sherman in July 1864. Who could not fail to see the similarities of Mechanicsville-Gaines Mill and Peachtree Creek-Atlanta?