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By Earl J. Hess

ISBN-10: 1469628759

ISBN-13: 9781469628752

ISBN-10: 1515954404

ISBN-13: 9781515954408

As a number one accomplice common, Braxton Bragg (1817–1876) earned a name for incompetence, for wantonly capturing his personal squaddies, and for wasting battles. This public snapshot verified him not just as a scapegoat for the South's army disasters but additionally because the leader whipping boy of the Confederacy. The strongly adverse reviews of Bragg's contemporaries have persevered to paint tests of the general's army profession and personality by means of generations of historians. instead of take those checks at face price, Earl J. Hess's biography bargains a way more balanced account of Bragg, the guy and the officer.

While Hess analyzes Bragg's many campaigns and battles, he additionally emphasizes how his contemporaries considered his successes and screw ups and the way those reactions affected Bragg either in my opinion and professionally. The testimony and critiques of different participants of the accomplice army--including Bragg's superiors, his fellow generals, and his subordinates--reveal how the overall turned a logo for the bigger army disasters that undid the Confederacy. by way of connecting the general's own lifestyles to his army profession, Hess positions Bragg as a determine saddled with unwarranted infamy and humanizes him as a mistaken but misunderstood determine in Civil conflict history.

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