General Braxton Bragg

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General Braxton Bragg

General Braxton Bragg (1817-1876), C.S.A.; lead the Army of Tennessee to victory at the Battle of Chickamauga, 1860. He was in Frankfort in 1862 to see the inauguration of the provisional Confederate governer of Kentucky, Richard Hawes.
Photo courtesy of the University of Kentucky.

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By Becky Riddle
Historical Marker #522 commemorates the Confederate occupation of Frankfort in September 1862. That summer, multiple Confederate armies invaded Kentucky in order to pull Union troops away from the vital railroad junction of Chattanooga,…