Braxton Bragg called himself "the best-abused man in the world." Newspapers and subordinates had turned public opinion against him, he believed, abetted by his own "personality that saw life as duty and the cause as enlisting self-sacrifice." Though he was not universally vilified by contemporaries, historians have publicized a harsh image of the general. A variety of assessments fill this study focusing on the Western Theater's longest-serving Confederate army commander, revealing how his interactions with its senior officers predisposed the Army of Tennessee to fail strategically and tactically.
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