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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy
By Hess, Earl J.
- ISBN
- 9781469628752
- Publisher
- Univ. of North Carolina
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Reviewed on July 1, 2016 | Social Sciences
In his latest work, Hess (history, Lincoln Memorial Univ.; The Battle of Ezra Church and the Struggle for Atlanta) presents a study of the Civil War career of Braxton Bragg (1817–76). Graduating from West Point in 1837, Bragg served in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. When the Civil War began in 1861, Bragg, then a Confederate general, was assigned to the coastal defense of Florida. He was promoted after the Battle of Shiloh and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
