What is the most impost thing General Braxton Bragg did for the Confederacy?
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Not much.  He lost most of the battles he fought, and got relieved of duty after the Battle of Chattanooga.  Probably the most important thing he did was to command the troops who traveled with Jefferson Davis as bodyguards after the fall of Richmond, before Davis surrendered.
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August 1, 1814 - December 15, 1862\n\nMaxcy Gregg, born in 1814 in Columbia, S.C., was later educated at South Carolina College in Columbia. One of the Confedracy's most intelligent and cultured men, Gregg's diverse knowledge and interests included philosophy, Greek drama, astronomy, botany, and ornithology. After passing the bar, Gregg practiced law with his father in Columbia for many years except for the short time he served in the Mexican War. The prominent and influential bachelor was an avid secessionist and a member of South Carolina's secession convention. When his state withdrew from for Union, Gregg was instrumental in organizing the 1st South Carolina Volunteers. The regiment, under Colonel Gregg, included 27 physicians, 30 lawyers, and many prominent businessmen.\n\nCommissioned brigadier general on December 14, 1861, Gregg led the leading brigade of Gen. Ambrose P. Hill's Light Division in the Battle of Gaines's Mill on June 27, 1862. The advance of his five regiments was, according to Hill, "the handsomest charge in line I have seen during the War." But the Yankees were well positioned and over the course of the Seven Days' campaign, Gregg's regiments suffered 939 casualties.\n\nGregg's military and leadership abilities were admired by many. "A regiment or brigade in his hands was a machine, where all parts worked together in thorough effeciency and smoothest harmony." At 2d Bull Run on August 29, 1862, Gregg and his men repulsed six assaults. The tenacious leader sent a message during the Union attack: "Tell Gen. Hill that my ammunition is exhausted, but that I will hold my position with bayonet!" That day resulted in 613 casualties among Gregg's troops. Two days later at Ox Hill, the Light Division drove back the Union soldiers in a driving rain.\n\nWhile held in a reserve position at Fredericksburg on December 13, Gregg's men were surprised by Gen. George B. Meade's Union troops as they charged through a disastrous gap in the Confederate line. Gregg was shot in the spine and suffered for two days before he died.\n\nFascinating Fact: The scholarly lawyer-scientist had a private observatory at his home that was so well equipped it would have been coveted by many colleges.
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Claibourne  the fighting irishman on tunnel hill i think on the extreme right of the rebel line and it was his repulse of sherman that led grant to call out the army of the ohio?  or was it the cumberland to take position in the center just as a show of force to make the rebs thin their line out...Thomas' troops had other ideas and ended up charging and somehow taking the damn ridge  damnyankees!!!!!   Damn Braxton Bragg !!!!!!!!!!!!!\nI think it was this charge that Douglas MacArthur's father won the Medeal of Honor....
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The Davis Administration in 1861.
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Arkansas had alot of troops to join the confederacy. Not alot happened in Arkansas but if it were not for the Confederacy it would not be a state. It was started by the confederacy. It was a territory before 1860.
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It's the 145th anniversary of Jefferson Davis's election to the presidency of the Confederate States (and I'm not even an American)
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There are so many. The signing of the Constitution of course, but if the Union hadn't won the Civil War, things would definitely be different. Those are the ones I thought of right away.
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Robert E Lee , it was during the American Civil War
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PGT Beaurgaard as he was second in command after the death of a s Johnston. also as Johnston was leading from the front Beaurgaard was in operational command from the rear\nfeeding the men to the front. with Wallace late arrival on day 1 CSA was doomed,regardless what the Bragg heads claim
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Robert Edward Lee (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870) was a career army officer and the most successful general of the Confederate forces during the American Civil War. He eventually commanded all Confederate armies as general-in-chief. Like Hannibal earlier and Rommel later, his victories against superior forces in an ultimately losing cause won him enduring fame. After the war, he urged sectional reconciliation, and spent his final years as a devoted college president. Lee remains an iconic figure of the Confederacy in the Southern states to this day.
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Wait whose picture is that I use?  hmmmmm!\n\n\nI have to say a few thing Bedford Forrest did not start the KKK as we know it if you read his biography you will learn that to be true.  Burnside was a washout who destroyed the Army of the Potomac at Fredericksburg his actions at Antietam were even more of an embarrassment even though he had an open field he chose to make a fight over a useless bridge.  Thsi is such a hard question even for someone who is not a Southerner you have Stuart, Jackson, Lee, Gordon  and Cleburne to name but a few.  I guess I am going to have to say Gordan.\n\nAlthough the backbone of the Confederate Army's officer corps was composed of professional soldiers, many officers,including generals, were civilians turned soldier. Only a few of them gained the admiration of their professional brothers in arms. Gordon was one of these. Characterized by splendid audacity, in 1864, he was described by General Robert E. Lee in a letter to Confederate President Jefferson Davis as being one of his best brigadiers. His rise, says his biographer, Ralph Lowell Eckert in John Brown Gordon, Soldier, Southerner, American, from captain to corps commander was unmatched in the Army of Northern Virginia. \n\nThe Company, which called itself the Raccoon Roughs, left Atlanta for Montgomery after Georgia Governor Joseph E. Brown declared that Georgia had all the troops it needed and offered its services to the State of Alabama, which incorporated them into an extra large 6th Alabama infantry. In the 6th Alabama's first taste of combat at Seven Pines, the Raccoon Roughs suffered heavy casualties. During the subsequent Seven Days Battles, as Gordon strode fearlessly among his men, enemy balls shattered the handle of his pistol, pierced his canteen, and tore away part of the front of his coat. Assigned by General Lee to hold an essential position during the Battle of Sharpsburg, Gordon's luck ran out.. \n\nGordon's men were tremendously outnumbered. Their only hope, he decided, was for his men to hold their fire until the enemy troops were practically on top of them and then all fire at once. It worked. Their first volley downed almost the entire Yankee front line. Subsequent lines of Yankees met a similar fate. However, many Confederates, too, went down at what came to be called the Battle of Bloody Lane (a sunken road), including Gordon. First, a mini ball passed through his calf. He soldiered on. Then, a second ball hit him higher in the same leg. He soldiered on. A third ball went through his left arm. He continued to lead his men despite the fact that the muscles and tendons in his arm were mangled, and a small artery was severed by this ball. A forth ball hit him in his shoulder. Despite pleas he go to the rear, he continued to lead his men. He was finally stopped by a ball which hit him in the face, passing through his left cheek and out his jaw. He fell with his face in his cap and might have drowned in his own blood if there hadn't been a bullet hole in the cap. Nursed back to health by his wife, who stayed as near to him as possible until late in the war when, incapacitated by the birth of a baby, she ended up behind enemy lines in Virginia, he returned to duty and was put in command of six Georgia regiments. He was promoted to brigadier general after the Battle of Chancellorsville. \n\nAt the Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse Lee's greatly outnumbered army was threatened with being cut in two. Only Gordon and his men could prevent this from happening. Lee was prepared to lead the charge of Gordon's men when Gordon rode up and said, in a voice loud enough for his men to hear: "General Lee, this is no place for you. These men behind you are Georgians and Virginians. They have never failed you and will not fail you here. Will you boys?" \n\n"No, no, no, we'll not fail him," the men cried. Then they took up the chant, "Lee to the rear," and Gordon seized Lee's
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"Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil War's most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader)."
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general of the confederate army
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Worst: Going to war with itself in the Civil War.\nBest: The Louisiana purchase which basically gave us the land to be the States that we are today.
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In the 1840s things started heating up between North and South over general states' rights against the rights of the federal government. The issues adressed generally dealt immediatly with slaves. New states admitted to the Union had to be judged as "slave states" (slaves allowed) or "free states" (slavery prohibited). \n\nBoth sides wanted new states to be whichever side they favored because it would give them more legislative power in the US Congress. This led to bloodshed in many areas, particularly in Kansas, which became known as "Bloody Kansas". \n\nIn 1861, South Carolina seceded from the Union (said they werent part of the US any more) and started seizing federal property, including arms and munitions. \n\nOther states started seceding as well. Soon the seceded states formed what they called the "Confederate States of America", which came to be headed by Jefferson Davis as President. They attacked Fort Sumner in South Carolina and seized the fort, capturing it's inhabitants. This was treason.\n\nAbraham Lincoln (President of the US) immediatly called for 75,000 troops to put down the uprising. Then the Civil War started, eventually involving millions of troops. 600,000 men eventually died in the conflict, and the US was shattered for decades after the war. Remember, this war was fought to unite the Union, NOT for slavery. In fact, slavery was only addressed in 1862 when Lincoln set forth the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing all slaves in the Confederate states. By 1863 there were armed black soldiers in Union armies, serving with distinction. In 1865 the CSA tried to use black troops, but they were destroyed before the plan could be implemented.\n\nIn 1865 the final Confederate forces surrendered (General Johnston was the last to surrender, but with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee the war was pretty much over). Richmond, VA, the Confederate capital, was seized. \n\nLincoln began steps to rebuild and reunite the US. He planned to be kind to the newly reunited South and not punish them for seceding. Before he could start, he was killed by a man named John Wilkes Booth. \n\nThe years following became years of anger and hate for Southerners. The North oppressed and punished Southern insurrection with high taxes and legal oversight. This period became known as Reconstruction, and it really only ended around the 1970s, one century after it started.\n\nHope I helped,\nThe Wise One\n\nP.S. For more information check out http://www.wikipedia.com\nThey are pretty good, but it's better to read books...however that takes more time than I think you want to spend.
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<There is no such thing.You probably meant Emancipation Proclamation. Emancipation Proclamation, in U.S. history, the executive order abolishing slavery in the Confederate States of America.\n\nOn Jan. 1, 1863, the formal and definite Emancipation Proclamation was issued. The President, by virtue of his powers as commander in chief, declared free all those slaves residing in territory in rebellion against the federal government as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion. Congress, in effect, had done as much in its confiscation acts of Aug., 1861, and July, 1862, but its legislation did not have the popular appeal of the Emancipation Proclamation—despite the great limitations of the proclamation, which did not affect slaves in those states that had remained loyal to the Union or in territory of the Confederacy that had been reconquered. These were freed in other ways (see slavery). Nor did the proclamation have any immediate effect in the vast area over which the Confederacy retained control. Confederate leaders, however, feared that it would serve as an incitement to insurrection and denounced it.
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In the final analysis, the Confederates were out numbered and out supplied. Arguably, Lee was a superior General to Grant but there's only so much  you can do when you are outnumbered.\n\nThanks for your excellent question.