1-344-896 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Braxton Bragg, Confederate general, 1862-1867. Bragg (1817-1876) commanded the Army of Tennessee in the western theatre of the Civil War. He won a victory at the Battle of Chickamauga (September 1863), but after defeat at Chattanooga two months later he was relieved of field command and re-assigned as military advisor to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. An engraving from volume III of The War with the South : a History of the Late Rebellion, by Robert Tomes, Benjamin G Smith, New York, Virtue & Yorston, 3 Volumes, 1862-1867.