“the shadowy world of newspaper correspondents and their often venomous attitude toward the general.”
For later
Still better to be lucky than good. Thank goodness he was an incompetent boob, else my Yankee ancestors might’ve died, and I wouldn’t be here.
Fort Bragg
I would say General Hood could give Bragg a run for his money in the hated department.
General Jackson was pretty much reviled by his troops right up until the actual fighting started. Then they loved him.
Even though he was a Texan, my bet is on John B. Hood. He completely destroyed his army in the battle of Franklin.
He contributed to the South being defeated
That will be celebrated by most here
The whipping boy is the South not Braxton Bragg
Course now all of White America is pretty much under attack so good works Yankees are getting a taste of their own meds
But given their natural chutzpah and proclivity for hypocrisy I doubt it will sate their cheap virtue addiction on our backs
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I thought Longstreet was the most hated Confederate for opposing Lee at Gettysburg...and becoming a Republican after the war.
Sherman grasped something most humans struggle to comprehend. What is the quality of Mercy?
Bump….
The Confederate Army of Tennessee never got the organization that the Army of Northern Virginia had.
At ANV’s best it was organized into three corps of three divisions each with each division having between 4-5 brigades.
The Army of Tennessee at its biggest battles had a much more confused organization. It could have 5-6 corps, some with one division, some with four. The problem stemmed partly from armies coming together for a big battle. For example at Chickamauga you had Polk bringing his army up from Mississippi serving as a corps under Bragg and you had Longstreet bringing two divisions from Virginia serving as a corps under Bragg. It was a mess of command.
Maybe it goes back to Fort Henry and Donaldson where the original southern western army was captured leaving a big void to be quickly killed in.