Trivia 11-5-19 the plot thickens

[Trivia Master]

What prominent Civil War General was the target of a "fragging" plot during the Mexican American War?

credit: @hughes

 

[General Casey]

Braxton Bragg

Source: http://www.ncscv.org/braxton-bragg

 

[gentlemanrob]

General Braxton Bragg

 

[stuart1861]

Lieutenant Colonel Braxton Bragg

 

[Stone in the wall]

Braxton Bragg

 

[DBF]

That would be the future Confederate General Braxton Bragg - answer found on this thread:
https://civilwartalk.com/threads/assassination-attempt-or-practical-joke-on-bragg.119409/ - Post #3

 

[Brenal]

Braxton Bragg.

 

[Wallyfish]

Braxton Bragg


Bragg fragging attempt shell under bed source

 

[captaindrew]

Braxton Bragg

 

[JOHN42768]

Lt.Col. Braxton Bragg (later a Confederate General)

 

[Michigander]

1. Braxton Bragg
Source

 

[Stony]

Braxton Bragg
source-https://books.google.com/books?id=M...+in+the+mexican+american+war&source=bl&ots=H6

 

[FarawayFriend]

Braxton Bragg in 1847

Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fragging&oldid=923181754

 

[connecticut yankee]

Civil War Confederate General Braxton Bragg

 

[Eleanor Rose]

Braxton Bragg
Source

 

[Ole Miss]

Braxton Bragg
Regards
David

 

[ErnieMac]

Braxton Bragg.

Bragg - Assassination attempt or practical joke on Bragg? | Famous People of the Late Unpleasantness

I've been reading recently William P. Snows book, "Lee and his Generals". In the chapter about Braxton Bragg, there's an interesting story about an apparent assassination attempt on bragg's life which occurred on March 26 1847, shortly after the battle of Buena vista. At around 2am, an artillery...

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[streetwiseprof]

Braxton Bragg.

 

[James N.]

Unsurprisingly, everybody's "favorite" martinet, Brevet Major Braxton Bragg of the artillery, who told afterward that someone had rolled a shell with a lighted fuse underneath the flap of the tent where he was sleeping; unfortunately, he wasn't hurt in the incident.

 

[WJC]

What prominent Civil War General was the target of a "fragging" plot during the Mexican American War?

credit: @hughes

Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), then a Captain in the U. S. Army, survived two, similar 1847 attempts by his men to kill him.
About one of the incidents, Bragg wrote:

Camp near Monterrey,​

Aug. 26, 1847
An attempt was made about 2 a.m., night before last, to assassinate me in my bed. I have no clue to the perpetrator, and can suggest no reason for the act. My escape without injury, is regarded as almost miraculous. As exaggerated accounts will probably reach the press, the truth may interest you. A twelve pound shell, heavily charged, was placed within two feet of my bed, just outside my tent, and exploded by a slow match; the fragments literally riddling my tent and bedding, pieces passing above and below me, some through a blanket spread over me, and yet I was not touched. I was not aware that I had an enemy in the world, and at times, fell disposed to believe now, that I may have been intended as a practical joke, by some fool ignorant of the effect of shells thus exploded. Be that as it may, my escape was almost miraculous, and I prefer not repeating the joke.​

<Braxton Bragg, "Letter", The Journal, (Hamburg, South Carolina: October 12, 1847). http://www.history.vt.edu/MxAmWar/Newspapers/RW/RW1847fJulyDec.htm#aRWv24i82p2c3Bragg>