A Sympathetic, Supportive View of Gen. Braxton Bragg
Life on the Civil War Research Trail
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Modern historians rate Braxton Bragg as one of the least successful military leaders, frequently cast as President Jefferson Davis’s favored but flawed general. Here's an account, published after his death in 1876, that takes a more sympathetic view.
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