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Originally Posted by Roguish Lawyer
I did not realize that Bragg was located in the good ol C S of A.
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Braxton Bragg was a Confederate general, though arguably one of the worst.
Fort Bragg did not exist during the War. It was founded as an artillery training base in 1918.
North Carolina is in the South, and was among the last to secede, after holding out for a compromise. It contributed the most troops to that War, and suffered over 25% of all casualties, despite having one of the lowest slave populations. I would not ascribe to the theory that the War was all about slavery, or impugn ill-motives to those who served or have studied it.
RL, do you believe that the Federal government should have usurped the states rights' that it has in the past 140 years?
TR
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