Braxton Bragg
Braxton Bragg As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. The strongly negative…
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Braxton Bragg
As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and for losing battles. The strongly negative opinions of Bragg's contemporaries have continued to color assessments of the general's military career and character by generations of historians. This public image established him not only as a scapegoat for the South's military failures but also as the chief whipping boy of the Confederacy.
Hess's biography offers a much more balanced account of Bragg, the man and the officer.While Hess analyzes Bragg's many campaigns and battles, he also emphasizes how his contemporaries viewed his successes and failures and how these reactions affected Bragg both personally and professionally. Rather than take these assessments at face value, Earl J. The testimony and opinions of other members of the