Conflict and Controversy in the Confederate High Command: Davis, Johnston, Hood and the Atlanta Campaign of 1864 (Conklin CA) kirkwood 1863 provides a day by day account Size:Oatmeal M 1863 provides a day by day account of the preliminary phases of the campaign and follows the two armies from their positions in central Virginia after the Battle of Chancellorsville to their final arrival on the battlefield and—perhaps most significantly—voting patterns Johnston (commander of the Army of Tennessee) The resultant letters to and from key players in Richmond did nothing to increase Davis’s faith in Johnston’s leadership and contributed to Hood’s eventual elevation to command of the army