This one leaves me wondering. Surely somebody could have been found to honor in place of Confederate General Braxton Bragg for this North Carolina post?
The post was renamed yesterday.
Bragg was a West Point graduate from North Carolina who had a career in the U.S. Army as an artilleryman, a branch that generally went to those graduating in the upper ends of their class. His career was mixed as a Confederate general, many would say poor, and he was ultimately relegated to advisory positions after the middle of the war. He died in 1876 at age 59, walking down a sidewalk in Galveston, Texas. His famously argumentative personality meant that after the war he occupied a string of occupations from which he resigned.
He'd been an opponent of succession personally.
