Braxton Bragg’s beach vacation – Pensacola in the early months of the Civil War
| dc.contributor.author | Zander, Cecily Nelson | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-02-05T14:54:24Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-02-05T14:54:24Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021-06-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Even the most casual of Civil War buffs knows that the war began in Charleston, South Carolina – when Confederate batteries opened fire on the Union-occupied Fort Sumter and its 85 defenders. Many may also know that war had an equally likely chance of beginning in the Gulf of Mexico, at Fort Pickens in Pensacola, Florida where Braxton Bragg, rather than P. G. T. Beauregard, might have made a name for himself as the first military hero of the fledging Confederate nation. As it happened, however, Sumter fell to the Confederacy and Pickens remained a Union bastion throughout the war, preventing the harbor town of Pensacola from ever falling into Confederate hands. A sampling of Braxton Bragg’s correspondence while in command in Pensacola, however, reveals several interesting themes that would come to define the Confederate war effort—and which are worth briefly surveying. | |
| dc.identifier.citation | This is the published version of a blog post that is available at https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/06/29/braxton-braggs-beach-vacation-pensacola-in-the-early-months-of-the-civil-war/. Recommended citation: Zander, C. N. (2021, June 29). Braxton Bragg’s beach vacation – Pensacola in the early months of the Civil War. Emerging Civil War. This item has been deposited in accordance with publisher copyright and licensing terms and with the author’s permission. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11274/15664 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://emergingcivilwar.com/2021/06/29/braxton-braggs-beach-vacation-pensacola-in-the-early-months-of-the-civil-war/ | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.publisher | Emerging Civil War | |
| dc.subject | Braxton Bragg | |
| dc.subject | Confederate women | |
| dc.subject | Florida | |
| dc.subject | Fort Pickens | |
| dc.subject | Jefferson Davis | |
| dc.subject | Nationalism | |
| dc.subject | Pensacola | |
| dc.title | Braxton Bragg’s beach vacation – Pensacola in the early months of the Civil War | |
| dc.type | Blog Post |