Dallas reader calls post's name change 'a poignant moment'

These ongoing cultural demotions of Civil War leaders mark the passing of an age. “Gone with the Wind,” as it were.

Gen. Hood was a brave soldier who lost an arm at Gettysburg and a leg at Chickamauga, but he was also an impetuous, foolish general who, without need, lost an entire army at the war’s end, all while fighting in defense of the imagined right of men to enslave each other.

This name change is a poignant moment in American history, and I do have mixed emotions, but the decision to change the name is more defensible than would be the decision to keep it.

Chip Field

Dallas