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	Braxton Bragg
		Bragg moved the Army of Mississippi 700 miles on a journey through Alabama and Georgia that completely astounded Don Carlos Buell and his Army of the Ohio by moving 30,000 men from Tupelo, Mississippi to Chattanooga by rail.
		Bragg had won the greatest Confederate victory of the war, but refused the advice of almost all his generals, including James Longstreet and Nathan Bedford Forrest and did not attack the retreating Yankees.
		Bragg was soundly defeated at the battle of Chattanooga, after which he returned to Richmond, Virginia, and served as an aide to Davis.
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	Braxton Bragg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army, a principal commander in the Western Theater of the American Civil War.
		Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the brother of future Confederate Attorney General Thomas Bragg.
		Bragg, you have quarreled with every officer in the army, and now you are quarreling with yourself!" It is alleged that some of his troops attempted to assassinate him on two occasions in August and September 1847, but he was not injured either time.
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	Braxton Bragg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Braxton Bragg (March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876) was a career U.S. Army officer and a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
		Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, the brother of future Confederate Attorney General Thomas Bragg and the future brother-in-law of Union general Don Carlos Buell.
		Bragg met Buell's army at Perryville on October 8 and won a tactical victory against him, but he withdrew his army back to Knoxville, representing a strategic failure for his invasion of Kentucky.
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	BRAXTON BRAGG, CSA
		Braxton Bragg was born in Warrenton, North Carolina, on March 22, 1817.
		Bragg led troops at the Siege of Corinth; and was made a full general by his friend, Confederate President Jefferson Davis, in June of 1862.
		Davis appointed Bragg chief of staff and, after Robert E. Lee became commanding general of the Confederate Army, Bragg was placed in command of a division in the Army of Tennessee.
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	Biography of Braxton Bragg, Civil War figure
		Bragg's father eventually became a fairly successful carpenter, but Warrenton's upper classes were never inclined to allow the Braggs to forget their humble origins.
		Bragg ordered his retreating men to halt, and in the middle of the onslaught ordered one of the other horsemen to dismount, turn around and recover the dead man's sword because it was public property that had been issued by the government.
		Bragg had the distinction of being both recklessly offensive as well as hesitant to the point of ineffectiveness at various times in his career; sometimes in the same battle.
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	Bragg home
		Braxton Bragg, a favorite whipping boy of historians, was a much better general than he is made out to be.
		Bragg was nearest to Louisville by some twenty-five miles, but Buell had the advantage of a bridge at Nashville and the assistance of the railroad to aid in his march.
		Bragg, Polk, and Hardee had been kept thoroughly informed of Buell's march and of the exposure of his flank, which presented an inviting opportunity for attack, but so worn and wearied was the condition of our army that these officers did not feel justified in attempting an aggressive movement.
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	StonesRiver (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bragg was to proceed from his headquarters in Knoxville in the eastern Tennessee in an attempt to drive out the Union forces.
		Braxton Bragg was born in North Carolina and graduated from West Point in 1837.
		Bragg received a promotion to full general and led the Army of Tennessee into action at the Battle of Perryville, Stones River, Chickamauga, and Chattanooga.
	www.collectorsnet.com /cwtimes/stonesri.htm (525 words)

	Braxton Bragg: The Personality of Failure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bragg was convicted but given a light sentence, probably because several congressmen came to his defense.(McWhiney 36, 39-43) Bragg continued to quarrel with his commanding officer, and even forced a court of inquiry to be called over the matter of the distribution of base housing.
		Bragg, who usually looked down on volunteer troops as inferior to the regular army, "could not complain of [Davis’] fighting quality or that of his regiment."(Downey, 14) At a crucial point in the battle, when the other American units were retreating, Davis, although wounded, marched his regiment into overwhelming odds to support Bragg’s battery.
		It was Bragg’s tragedy and the South’s, when he became her sixth ranking general, that the years had dulled the dash and decisiveness of the crack artilleryman of the war with Mexico.
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	Braxton Bragg
		The vacancy created by the death of Albert Sidney Johnston at that battle was filled by the promotion of Bragg to full general's rank, and he succeeded General Beauregard when that officer retired from the Western command.
		Bragg, however, inflicted a crushing defeat on his opponent at Chickamauga (September 19-20) and for a time besieged the Union forces in Chattanooga.
		Bragg was now deprived of his command, but President Davis made him his military adviser, and in that capacity he served during 1864.
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	The Mystery of Braxton Bragg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Bragg's problem at Stones River was much the same as that which plagued him elsewhere -- he simply could not adjust to the ebb and flow of changing battlefield conditions.
		Bragg apologists have contended that were it not for the underhanded dealings of some of Bragg's subordinate officers (implying, therefore, that some small, distinct minority opposed him), Bragg's command would have functioned with greater efficiency.
		Bragg was never sure of the limits of both his command and that of Smith, and Smith was quick to take advantage of Bragg's hesitancy.
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	Braxton Bragg: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		General Braxton Bragg (March 22 1817- September 271876) was a general general quick summary:
		Bragg was born in Warren County[Click link for more facts about this topic], EHandler: no quick summary.
		Thomas bragg (9 november 1810 -- 21 january 1872) was the democratic governor of north carolinagovernor of the u.s....
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	Braxton Bragg
		Bragg commanded a corps at Shiloh (April, 1862) where the forces led by Ulysses S. Grant suffered heavy losses until the arrival of General Don Carlos Buell and reinforcements.
		Bragg was considered to have fought badly at Chickamuga (September, 1863) and was replaced by Joseph E. Johnston.
		General Bragg allowed the whole of the fruits of this great victory to pass from him by the most criminal negligence, or, rather, incapacity, for there are positions in which weakness is wickedness.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWbragg.htm (789 words)

	Bragg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Braxton Bragg, military officer for whom Fort Bragg is named
		Paul Bragg, nutritionist, is the founder of America’s health movement
		Bragg's law, authored by William Henry and Willliam Lawrence Bragg
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	Braxton Bragg
		Of the many letters Bragg received at this time from men high and low in the Confederate army, perhaps the most charming was a note from J.H. Fraser of Company F of the 15th Alabama Volunteers.
		Bragg was always too engrossed in the details of moving, disciplining, organizing, and feeding his men to master the broader and more comprehensive duties of a battle leader.
		By the time Bragg was called to Richmond, in the spring of 1864, as the president's military adviser, Bragg has lost both his military reputation and his self-confidence.
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	This Week in the Civil War October 5,1862
		From the editor: Braxton Bragg and Kirby Smith made few plans on what they were going to do once their armies reached Kentucky.
		Bragg is further hampered by the blatant disregard for authority shown to him by Bishop Leonidas Polk.
		Braxton Bragg, still uncertain as to the exact position and strength of Don Carlos Buell's army, intends to join Kirby Smith near Frankfort where he believes the bulk of Buell's army is converging.
	www.civilweek.com /1862/oct0562.htm (4073 words)

	Braxton Bragg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Braxton Bragg was a talented and brave soldier whose merits took him to high rank; his drawback was that he made enemies easily.
		Bragg couldn’t be kept on as an army commander, but Davis protected him, appointing him as an advisor.
		Bragg, from being commander of all Confederate forces in the west was reduced to overseeing Hoke’s single division of North Carolinians.
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	Braxton Bragg Biography
		Of the eight men who reached the rank of full general in the Confederate army Braxton Bragg was the most controversial.
		With the army thus weakened, Bragg was routed at Chattanooga and was shortly removed from command.
		When Joseph E. Johnston assumed command of all forces in North Carolina on March 6, 1865, Bragg was soon relegated to supervision of Hoke's division from his old department.
	www.civilwarhome.com /braggbio.htm (537 words)

	General Braxton Bragg - Confederate Civil War General
		Braxton Bragg graduated from West Point in 1837.
		Bragg resigned his commission in the 3rd Artillery in 1856 to take up the life of a Louisiana planter.
		Jefferson Davis, a steadfast supporter of Bragg, appointed him his special military advisor, and he served in Richmond in that capacity until the waning days of the war.
	www.swcivilwar.com /bragg.html (449 words)

	Braxton Bragg
		As Commander of the Army of Tennessee, Bragg invaded Kentucky early in the war but to Tennessee when the promised secessionist uprising did not materialize.
		Bragg was victorious at the Battles of Murfreesboro and Chickamauga but met his ultimate defeat at the Battle of Chattanooga and retreated into Georgia.
		He was taken out of the field by Confederate President Jefferson Davis and made chief military adviser in early 1864, serving in that post until the end of the war.
	www.socialstudiesforkids.com /wwww/us/braxtonbraggdef.htm (156 words)

	Braxton Bragg's Report of Chickamauga (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		To the nearly violent chagrine of his subordinate commanders, Bragg failed to exploit the victory and Rosecrans' was able to fortify Chattanooga.
		General Bragg orders you to attack and force your way through the enemy to this point at the earliest hour that you can see him in the morning.
		It is difficult to say which should be most admired in the history of its campaign, that Fabian strategy, sustained by patient brave endurance, which avoided general engagements until all things were ready, or the chivalric valor which carried the tide of battle against the stubborn invaders of our soil.
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	Bragg, Braxton. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In the Chattanooga campaign, Bragg, victorious in the battle of Chickamauga, laid siege to the Union army in Chattanooga, but in Nov., 1863, Gen. U.
		Johnston took over his command (December) and Bragg went to Richmond, where he became military adviser to Jefferson Davis, with nominal rank as commander in chief of Confederate armies.
		After the war he was chief engineer of Alabama and later lived in Texas, where he died.
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	Alabama Governor Braxton Comer
		Braxton Bragg Comer was born November 7, 1848, at old Springs Hill, Barbour County, Alabama, the fourth son of John Fletcher and Catherine Drewry Comer.
		B.B. and Eva Jane Comer had eight children: Sally Bailey, John Fletcher, James McDonald, Eva Mignon, Catherine, Braxton Bevelle, Eva, and Braxton Bragg, Jr., and Hugh M. Comer.
		Braxton Bragg Comer: An Alabamian Whose Avondale Mills Opened New Paths for Southern Progress, 1947.
	www.archives.state.al.us /govs_list/g_comerb.html (920 words)

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