HIST-UA 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Braxton Bragg
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Jefferson davis became the provisional president for the confederate government. He was his own secretary for the war and he didn"t provide national leadership. He spent too much time on routine things and had punctiliousness about legal and constitutional niceties inappropriate to the needs of a new nation at war. Davis was a trained professional soldier: robert e. lee. Davis named robert e. lee the principal military advisor for the confederate forces. Davis didn"t share military strategies and lee left for richmond. Lee appointed braxton bragg as a military advisor but. In february 1865, the confederate congress made the general in chief and lee was assigned it but davis wanted to make all the decisions. The war ended before the command structure was made though: george mcclellan. The union operations were directed by george mcclellan. He was the controversial leader of the war.
