Braxton Bragg

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Braxton Bragg was a graduate of West Point (Class of 1837), a Seminole War veteran, involved in Indian Removal, a distinguished veteran during the Mexican-American War, and a long-standing United States Army officer. President Jefferson Davis called Bragg to Richmond where he was placed under the direction of the president "with the conduct of the military operations in the armies of the Confederacy."

Bragg resigned from the army in 1856 and was overseeing his Louisiana plantation when the war began.

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