Description
Book Synopsis 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.
Trade Reviewthe most detailed and objective biography available of this controversial individual"—
America's Civil War; "much of benefit for readers...as the first one-volume biography of Bragg since the 1920s...soundly written"—
The Journal of Southern History.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
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- l. Boyhood
- 2. West Point
- 3. The Seminole War
- 4. South Carolina
- 5. Corpus Christi
- 6. Fort Brown
- 7. Monterrey
- 8. Buena Vista
- 9. War's Interlude
- 10. Politics
- 11. Elise Ellis
- 12. Jefferson Barracks
- 13. Louisiana Planter
- 14. Pensacola
- 15. Major General
- 16. Corinth
- 17. To Shiloh
- 18. Shiloh, Day One
- 19. Shiloh, Day Two and After
- 20. Prelude to Kentucky
- 21. Into Kentucky
- 22. Munfordville
- 23. Perryville
- 24. Battle of Perryville
- 25. Retreat from Perryville
- 26. Middle Tennessee
- 27. Battle of Murfreesboro
- 28. Retreat to Tullahoma
- 29. The Enemy Within
- 30. The Tullahoma Campaign
- 31. Another Retreat
- 32. McLemore's Cove
- 33. Chickamauga, Day One
- 34. Chickamauga, Day Two
- 35. Breakthrough
- 36. The Rock of Chickamauga
- 37. Confrontation
- 38. The Opening Battles
- 39. Chattanooga, Day One
- 40. Lookout Mountain
- 41. Sherman Fails—Again
- 42. Routed
- 43. Relieved of Duty
- 44. Richmond
- 45. Joe Johnston
- 46. Bermuda Hundred
- 47. Johnston Replaced
- 48. Wilmington
- 49. First Assault
- 50. Fort Fisher Falls
- 51. Wilmington Captured
- 52. Kinston
- 53. Bentonville
- 54. End of the War
- 55. Final Years
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- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
