Wednesday, November 27, 2013

November 28, 1863---Sackcloth and Ashes



NOVEMBER 28, 1863:      

General Braxton Bragg, C.S.A., personally humiliated after the loss of Chattanooga, resigns his command of the Army of Tennessee, and urges President Jefferson Davis to investigate the failure of the campaign---in effect, requesting that he himself be court-martialed.