Books By Stephen M. Hood - Author

Stephen M. “Sam” Hood graduated from Kentucky Military Institute, Marshall University (BBA, 1976), and is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve. A collateral descendant of General Hood, Sam is a retired industrial construction company owner, past member of the Board of Directors of the Blue and Gray Education Society, and a past president of the Board of Directors of Confederate Memorial Hall Museum in New Orleans. He lives in Huntington, West Virginia, with his wife Martha, and is the proud father of two sons: Derek Hood of Lexington, Kentucky, and Taylor Hood of Huntington, West Virginia. His first book John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General won the 2014 Albert Castel Book Award and the 2014 Walt Whitman Award.