Pre-War Braxton Bragg...

[Private Watkins]

I've never seen this image of Bragg before...
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Extremely rare albumen card of Confederate Major General Braxton Bragg. Possibly the only one of it's kind in existence. Exceptionally clear it shows Bragg dressed in civilian attire prior to the war. I would assume this was taken during the mid 1850's after Bragg had resigned his commission and purchased a 1600 acre sugar plantation in Louisiana. This view would have been produced from an earlier daguerreotype view of Bragg but I have been unable to locate the original or even a photo of it. He would serve as a corps commander at Shiloh and later commanded the Army of Tennessee. Fought at Perryville, Murfreesboro, Stones River and defeated Rosecrans at Chickamauga. He finished the war serving as a corps commander in the Carolina's. This view measures 7 1/2" x 5" and has an old period ink identification along the bottom. Extremely rare and in exceptional condition.

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[AndyHall]

Bragg was a remarkably intelligent and well-informed man, professionally and otherwise. He was also thoroughly upright. But he was possessed of an irascible temper, and was naturally disputatious.

--- Grant

 

[Pat Young]

Cool beard. Bragg was a hipster by the looks of it.

 

[Private Watkins]

He's also got a nice unibrow...

 

[Lt.Drake]

My favorite story of Bragg was the little episode in which he (acting under two positions at once) fights with himself via official army correspondence, then threatened to bring himself up on charges. His superior officer told him that he had "argued with every other officer in the army, and...now you're arguing with yourself"

 

[Stony]

General Braxton Bragg was the scourge of the Confederacy. A dour and argumentative man, he did not inspire loyalty or respect from his troops, his contemporaries or from civilians living in the South.The stress of being in charge of six thousand men was too much to bear for Bragg. At forty-five, he looked like an old man. He repeatedly suffered from rheumatism, dyspepsia, severe migraines and general nervousness.The Battle of Shiloh, on April 6, 1862 was the first of many disasters for Bragg. Bragg continued to show his ineptitude at the Battle of Perryville in October 1862. The Richmond Examiner purportedly wrote, "Bragg has been sent to Wilmington! Goodbye Wilmington." Bragg's troops in Wilmington were unprepared, undisciplined and few in number. And so on. Bragg sucked. And still does.

 

[Private Watkins]

But he was a friend of Jeff Davis... who might have had more than one blind eye when it came to General Bragg.

 

[Stony]

Yea jeffy boy loved him no doubt. Why else would he keep an incompetent general?

 

[7th Mississippi Infantry]

Braxton . . .

He would have fit in well with cast of the original Dark Shadows show.

A relative of the Quentin Collins character perhaps ?