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Thread #171504   Message #4148313
Posted By: cnd
25-Jul-22 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Add: Braxton Bragg
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: Braxton Bragg
A gentle correction, currently it is only *recommended* that Ft. Bragg be renamed to Fort Liberty; the name change hasn't formally happened yet, and I've been unable to find any information about a date for the impending renaming. Nonetheless, I imagine that there's more push for a government-funded entity to be renamed than a town.

Otherwise, though, your characterization and summarization of him is pretty spot-on for his service in the Civil War. (An argument could be made that he was an adequate leader but simply repeatedly outmaneuvered by a more tactical Rosecrans, who was allowed a greater degree of freedom and independence in the western theater, farther from Lincoln's meddling hand -- numerous historians blame the repeated failure of the various Union leaders/success of the Confederacy in the eastern theaters early in the war on Lincoln's heavy-handed involvement -- but I think his string of failures largely speaks for itself).

Regardless, I am surprised a town in California would still bear the name of an eventual Confederate. Before you posted your Hotel Mendocino cover I had never heard of the town. I suppose the main argument against renaming it is because it honored Bragg in his pre-CSA days for his work in the Mexican-American War?