Lieutenant General Braxton Bragg, for whom Fort Bragg, North Carolina was named, and who is my Great grandfather several times removed.
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Sorry to contradict you but Lieutenant General Braxton Bragg was relieved from his command after the Battle of Chattanooga and not after that of Chickamauga.
The general who lost his command after Chickamauga was the Union General Rosencrans.
there were 34,624 casualties in the battle of chickamauga.
The Confederate concentration of troops in advance of the Battle of Chickamauga was not unnoticed by the Union. Union General in Chief Henry W. Halleck sought to reinforce Rosencrans' army by sending troops from as faraway as Minnesota and from Georgia. By the time any reinforcements arrived the battle had already been lost.
In mid-July of 1864, Union General William Sherman was headquartered outside of Atlanta. There a Union spy informed him that Confederate General Joseph Johnston was being replaced with General John Bell Hood. Sherman knew little about Hood, except that he lost a leg at the Battle of Chickamauga.
Bedford Forrest
Confederate General led the Confederate army at the Battle of Antietam in September of 1862. Lee lost the battle and had to retreat back to Virginia. Union General George B. McClellan led the Union army to the victory.
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The Confederate (south) states lost the battle.
At the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, the Confederate army suffered 28,000 casualties. This figure represents both wounded and killed soldiers.
The Union lost 1656 And the Confederacy lost 2386 Total casualties were Union: 16,179 and Conferderacy: 17,804
When President Jefferson Davis called on General John Bell Hood to take the place of General Joseph Johnston and defend Atlanta, Georgia, Hood was surprised. He was not eager to handle the huge responsibility Davis was placing on his shoulders. Hood was a brave and resourceful general. Having lost the use of his left arm at the Battle of Gettysburg, he later had his right leg amputated at the hip from the Battle of Chickamauga. He carried on despite these injuries but had to be strapped into his saddle when riding horseback.
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