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File Name	Q3608
Digital image order form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/photo_order_form.pdf
Permission to publish form	http://www.archives.alabama.gov/referenc/private2.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
Email ADAH	Do you have information or questions about this image? Click here to email us: mailto:photos.archives@archives.alabama.gov and please include file name (located below image) or the hyperlink of the image.
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
Author	Steiner, Robert E.
Collection or Series Title	Robert E. Steiner Confederate officers photographs
Box Number	SPP52
Catalog Record	http://adahcat.archives.alabama.gov:81/vwebv/holdingsInfo?bibId=10327
Repository	Alabama Dept. of Archives and History, 624 Washington Ave., Montgomery, AL 36130
Language	English
Rights	This material may be protected under U. S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S. Code) which governs the making of photocopies or reproductions of copyrighted materials. You may use the digitized material for private study, scholarship, or research. Though ADAH has physical ownership of the material in its collections, in some cases we may not own the copyright to the material. It is the patron's obligation to determine and satisfy copyright restrictions when publishing or otherwise distributing materials found in our collections.
Digital Format	600 dpi tiff
Project Name	Confederate officers
Date created	2008-05-14

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