BRAXTON BRAGG was a Confederate general during
the Civil War. In the spring of 1861, he found himself
stationed on the opposite side of Pensacola Bay from his
longtime friend and military comrade, Union General Henry
J. Hunt. Their letters to each other clarify the political
and social tumult of the times by reducing the epic scale
of the American Civil War to human proportions. Bragg
survived the war and settled in Galveston, Texas. Get
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164th New York, standing in inspection formation, ca.1863
(GLC05111.01.0071)