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Braxton Bragg: The Most Hated Man of the Confederacy

Earl J. Hess

Print publication date: 2016

Print ISBN-13: 9781469628752

Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: January 2017

DOI: 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628752.001.0001

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Braxton Bragg
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Earl J. Hess

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University of North Carolina Press
DOI:10.5149/northcarolina/9781469628752.003.0002

Beginning in March, 1861, Braxton Bragg commanded Confederate troops opposing Union-held Fort Pickens near Pensacola. It was a potential flash point but his cautious handling of this tense situation avoided an incident that could have started a war between North and South before the firing on Fort Sumter at Charleston, South Carolina. Bragg continued to command at Pensacola after the start of the war, training his raw recruits into a good but small army. In fact, he spent the first year of his Confederate army service in this area, managing an enlarged geographic command that included much of the Gulf Coast. Officers and enlisted men who served under Bragg at Pensacola remained among his most loyal supporters for the rest of the war. Only with the fall of Fort Henry and Fort Donelson was Bragg called away from Pensacola with most of his troops in a desperate bid to turn back the tide of Union success in Tennessee.

Keywords:   Pensacola, Fort Pickens, Fort Donelson, Fort Sumter, Confederate training

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