ABSTRACT
While Confederate politics were riddled with divisions, the southern military was similarly beset by personal animosity and command schisms. Some of the worst divisions within the Confederate military could be found in General Braxton Bragg’s command, and the hatred and mistrust he seemed to inspire in his subordinates played a role in two important battles in the West in the latter months of 1863: the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia in September, and the Battle of Chattanooga in Tennessee in late November.
