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The Daily Dispatch: August 19, 1864., [Electronic resource], The enemy's opinion of General Bragg. (search)
The enemy's opinion of General Bragg. --The newspaper generals in the United and the Confederate States do not seem to agree in their estimates of General Bragg. The correspondent of the New YGeneral Bragg. The correspondent of the New York Times with Sherman's army thus writes of a general who is generally held up as the author, and, in most cases, the finisher of all our disasters: I will inform you of one thing certain in connection with Hood. There is a person named Bragg at work. His tactics cannot be mistaken. He pounced his whole army upon one Federal corps while moving in column at Perryville, nearly annihilatemy all but struck us in the flank and rear. It is an opinion, long ago expressed, that General Bragg is the best man the enemy ever had in command of his army in the Southwest. This fact is clearly developed now. The rebels, in and out of the army, despise Bragg because he is a soldier. He is a strict disciplinarian. Had he not been, the rebel Army of Tennessee, composed of a lot of you