General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A.
File Name
Q3608
Order Form
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/reproduction_order.pdf
Use Agreement Form
http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/use_agreement_form.pdf
Item Title
General Braxton Bragg , C.S.A .
Description
(Rank in photograph undetermined . He has the stars on his collar of a colonel , but the button arrangement of a brigadier general.) Graduated from West Point , 1837 ; Seminole War and Mexican War veteran . Resigned his U.S . Army commission in 1856 and moved to Louisiana . Appointed to the Louisiana militia in 1860 and captured the Baton Rouge Arsenal in February 1861 . Commissioned as a brigadier general in March 1861 and assumed command of the Gulf Coast defenses from Pensacola to Mobile . Promoted to major general in September 1862 . Major campaigns and battles include Shiloh , Perryville , Stones River , Chickamauga , and Chattanooga . Relieved by General Joseph E . Johnston and served as Davis ' advisor for the remaining part of the war . After the war , Bragg worked as civil engineer and died in Galveston , Texas , in September 1876 . He is buried in Mobile , Alabama . Sources : Boatner , Mark M . The Civil War Dictionary . New York : Vintage Books , 1988 . Davis , William C. , ed . The Confederate General . Vol . I . National Historical Society , 1991 .
Date
1861 circa
Time Period
1860-1869
Photographer
Anthony , E . & H.T. , New York
Subject
Bragg, Braxton, 1817-1876 Soldiers--Confederate States of America--North Carolina United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Type
Still image
Format
Photographs Cartes-de-visite Studio portraits
Collection Creator
Steiner, Robert E.
Collection Title
Robert E. Steiner Confederate officers photographs
Location
SPP52
Catalog Record
http://archives-alabama-primo.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/01ALABAMA:default_scope:01ALABAMA_ALMA215878330002743
Repository
Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130
Language
English
Rights
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Original Size
2 by 3.4 inches
Digital Format
600 PPI TIFF
Project Name
Confederate officers
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