Stephen M. Hood

Stephen M. “Sam” Hood is a retired industrial contractor living in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. He is a graduate of Kentucky Military Institute and Marshall University, and served in the United States Marine Corps Reserve. Sam is the author of The Lost Papers of Confederate General John Bell Hood and John Bell Hood: The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of a Confederate General, winner of the 2014 Albert E. Castel and Walt Whitman Book of the Year Awards. He is a past president of the board of directors of the Confederate Memorial Hall Museum Foundation in New Orleans. A former youth, high school, and college soccer coach, Sam was twice named West Virginia High School Soccer Coach of the Year and is a member of the West Virginia Soccer Hall of Fame.