Good Soldier Shweik
Private
- Joined
- Oct 17, 2018
- Location
- on a volcano
Bragg was a martinet, and he had a strong sense of discipline, which he believed everyone should share.
He also was argumentative beyond endurance, and he got people's dander up to such a degree, that intelligent suggestions of his were not taken up because of the manner he made them.
he was the worst kind of commander in some respects, the best in others. But his virtues were totally obscured by his very real vices. He was silly and evil because he could not take a joke and threatened duels over such minor things that one wonders about his sanity.
He fought to a tie at Stones Ricer and, with Longstreet's help, almost annihilated Rosecrans. And two months later he was involved in the most humiliating loss of the war.
He repays inspection, but his personality is such that biographers gave up.
His domestic life is almost as uxorious as Grant's, so he could conceivably be polite to someone without her poisoning his soup. He had odd friendships, like with Sherman. But Sherman was an odd one too.
He also was argumentative beyond endurance, and he got people's dander up to such a degree, that intelligent suggestions of his were not taken up because of the manner he made them.
he was the worst kind of commander in some respects, the best in others. But his virtues were totally obscured by his very real vices. He was silly and evil because he could not take a joke and threatened duels over such minor things that one wonders about his sanity.
He fought to a tie at Stones Ricer and, with Longstreet's help, almost annihilated Rosecrans. And two months later he was involved in the most humiliating loss of the war.
He repays inspection, but his personality is such that biographers gave up.
His domestic life is almost as uxorious as Grant's, so he could conceivably be polite to someone without her poisoning his soup. He had odd friendships, like with Sherman. But Sherman was an odd one too.