Braxton Bragg A Man Keen Term Paper

By untiringly assuming many of the duties and much of the criticism that had burdened and perplexed Davis, Bragg eased some of the president's vexations. In the process he maintained old enmities and created many new ones. (Hallock, 1991, pp. 186-7). That Davis felt that Bragg should continue in his command (at a time when Davis and the Confederacy were not yet desperate) despite is personal dislike of Bragg must lead one to the conclusion that Bragg was valuable in ways that McPherson does not see. Bragg seems to have been an excellent organizer, a man whose considerable skills to plan somehow failed to translate to military life. Bragg was perhaps more than anything else a man placed in a situation for which he did not have any semblance of the right skills. He caused the death of many who might otherwise have been able to go home to their farms and families at the end of the war.

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They had no faith in his ability as a general. He was looked upon as a merciless tyrant... He loved to crush the spirit of his men." Watkins continued, referencing Bragg's many executions of his own men, who would face the firing squad for any number of even minor infractions: "We... did not now so much love our country as we feared Bragg. Men were being led to the death stake every day" (Braxton Bragg, http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/OfficersAndEnlistedMen/braxtonbragg.html).

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Braxton Bragg, http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/OfficersAndEnlistedMen/braxtonbragg.html.

Cozzens, P. (1990). No Better Place to Die: The Battle of Stones River. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Cozzens, P. (1992). This Terrible Sound: The Battle of Chickamauga. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.

Hallock, J.L. (1991). Braxton Bragg and Confederate Defeat. (Vol. 2). Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press.


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