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Braxton Bragg - The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy (Paperback)
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Braxton Bragg - The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy (Paperback)
Series: Civil War America
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As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-1876) earned
a reputation for incompetence, for wantonly shooting his own
soldiers, and for losing battles. 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. 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. Rather than take these assessments at
face value, Earl J. 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. The
testimony and opinions of other members of the Confederate
army--including Bragg's superiors, his fellow generals, and his
subordinates--reveal how the general became a symbol for the larger
military failures that undid the Confederacy. By connecting the
general's personal life to his military career, Hess positions
Bragg as a figure saddled with unwarranted infamy and humanizes him
as a flawed yet misunderstood figure in Civil War history.
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