Braxton Bragg The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy / Earl J. Hess.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hess, Earl J., author.

Series:

Civil War America (Series)

Civil War America

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Generals--Confederate States of America--Biography.

Generals.

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

United States.

Confederate States of America. Army--Biography.

Confederate States of America.

Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white).

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2016

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2016]

Summary:

As a leading Confederate general, Braxton Bragg (1817-76) earned a reputation for incompetence, wantonly shooting his own soldiers, and losing battles. The negative opinions of Bragg's contemporaries have continued to colour assessments of the his military career by generations of historians. Rather than take these assessments at face value, Earl J. Hess's biography offers a much more balanced account of Bragg.

Contents:

The making of a Southern patriot

Pensacola

Shiloh

Corinth and high command

Kentucky

Controversy and recovery

Stones River

Turning point

Tullahoma

Chickamauga

Revolt of the generals

Chattanooga

Military adviser to the Confederate president

Davis's troubleshooter

Defeat

After the war.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2016.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

979-88-908521-3-7

979-88-908521-4-4

1-4696-2876-7

1-4696-2877-5

OCLC:

958454790