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Braxton Bragg

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  • Braxton Bragg is born

  • Bragg Graduates West Point

  • Bragg and his artillery unit are ordered to join General Zachary Taylor in the defense of Texa from Mexico

    He won awards for bravey and distinguished conduct, including a multiple number of promotions

  • Bragg marries Eliza Brooks Ellis

  • Bragg submits his resignation from the army

  • Governer Thomas O. Moore appoints Bragg to state military board

    Appointed to raise a 5,000 man army

  • Commissioned to be Brigadier General of the confedrate army

  • Bragg moves 10,000 men to support Albert Sidney Johnston in Corinth, Mississippi

  • Bragg commands a corps at the battle of Shiloh

    Bragg commands a corps at the battle of Shiloh

  • Bragg recieves public appraise for his action at Shiloh

    Jefferson Davis appoints Bragg to full general

  • Bragg appointed as commander of the western division including the Mississippi army

  • Bragg meets with Smith at Chattanooga

    Discuss the invasion of Kentucky

  • Bragg Fights in the battle of Chickamauga

  • Bragg fights in battle of Missionary Ridge

  • Bragg fights at Fort Fischer

  • Braxton Bragg dies