General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.General Braxton Bragg is often described as a despicable, friendless man, the most hated general of the Confederacy. Historians have denigrated Bragg by accepting without challenge the self-serving accusations of prominent, disgruntled subordinates, each of whom sought to explain their own failures by assigning them to Bragg. This biography, without dodging Bragg's deficiencies, refutes much of this false testimony. The result is a balanced view of this controversial general, from his early rise to power in the Western theater to his subsequent fall from grace in the latter years of the Civil War. |
Contents
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5 Corpus Christi | 30 |
6 Fort Brown | 36 |
7 Monterrey | 43 |
31 Another Retreat | 268 |
32 McLemores Cove | 280 |
33 Chickamauga Day One | 291 |
34 Chickamauga Day Two | 295 |
35 Breakthrough | 307 |
36 The Rock of Chickamauga | 321 |
37 Confrontation | 329 |
38 The Opening Battles | 340 |
8 Buena Vista | 50 |
9 Wars Interlude | 58 |
10 Politics | 62 |
11 Elise Ellis | 66 |
12 Jefferson Barracks | 72 |
13 Louisiana Planter | 82 |
14 Pensacola | 90 |
15 Major General | 102 |
16 Corinth | 112 |
17 To Shiloh | 122 |
18 Shiloh Day One | 127 |
19 Shiloh Day Two and After | 141 |
20 Prelude to Kentucky | 148 |
21 Into Kentucky | 159 |
22 Munfordville | 173 |
23 Perryville | 182 |
24 Battle of Perryville | 194 |
25 Retreat from Perryville | 202 |
26 Middle Tennessee | 214 |
27 Battle of Murfreesboro | 220 |
28 Retreat to Tullahoma | 235 |
29 The Enemy Within | 244 |
30 The Tullahoma Campaign | 261 |
39 Chattanooga Day One | 352 |
40 Lookout Mountain | 356 |
41 Sherman FailsAgain | 361 |
42 Routed | 367 |
43 Relieved of Duty | 374 |
44 Richmond | 379 |
45 Joe Johnston | 391 |
46 Bermuda Hundred | 399 |
47 Johnston Replaced | 405 |
48 Wilmington | 415 |
49 First Assault | 421 |
50 Fort Fisher Falls | 427 |
51 Wilmington Captured | 437 |
52 Kinston | 443 |
53 Bentonville | 450 |
54 End of the War | 460 |
55 Final Years | 466 |
Epilogue | 473 |
Notes | 477 |
Bibliography | 511 |
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