at the time that lee made his recommendation braxton bragg was outnumbered which leads me to conclude that lee either did not know or did not care what was going on in any theater outside of his own precious virginia theater. the only time that reinforcements went from lee's army elsewhere was when they were allowed to go to alcoholica wagona. lee delayed that movement by three weeks. during those three weeks union soldiers captured knoxville, tennessee blocking the easy route to get down to chatta nuga and that forced long street to take an eight to ten day trip using eight to ten small railroads to get through the carolina's and georgia to get to the battlefield. then he showed up in the middle of two-day battle and had roughly one-half of his troops, had none of his arrow till area and his horses and mulz he had one arm tied behind his back. due to good luck for the confederates longstreet was in a position to destroy rose's army but he became known as the rock of alcoholica mul gau by defending the high ground for the whole afternoon and into the evening before he made an orderly

at the time braxton bragg in east tennessee was outnumbered 3-1 by union opponents. and so which leads me to conclude, and not just that, but i will generally conclude that lee either did not know or did not care what was going on tpheuz theater outside his own. when reinforcements went elsewhere is when long street went down to chick mawing ga. during the three weeks, union soldiers captured knoxville, tennessee, blocking the easy and simple route to get down to the chattanooga area. and that forced long street, who started three weeks late, to stake an eight to ten-day trip, using eight to ten railroads to get to the chick phau ga battle field. long street showed up in the middle of a two-day battle, had roughly one half of his troops, had none of his artillery, none of his horses and mules. he went in with one armed tied behind his back. now, due to some federal incompetence and good luck for the con fed rats long street was in a strong position to pretty much destroy rose krapbts's arm. but george thomas became known as the rock of chick phau ga by defending the

so davis along with his secretary of war, john seddon, and chief military adviser, braxton bragg, who had been promoted under the double peter principle to davis' military adviser at that point, the three of them started using words like treason, take names, keep a list, watch these men, da, da, da, da. and davis finally had the secretary of war send word back to johnston -- destroy all copies of the proposal, and no one shall ever discuss this again. he almost succeeded in destroying the records because the only copy that ever appeared was found 20 years later when confederate records were being assembled to produce the official records of the war of rebellion. and there it was. so that's in the official records, if you choose to read clayburn's very thoughtful and thought-provoking proposal which at that time got nowhere. one clear effect it had is it stopped his career advancement because over the next ten months before he was killed in general hood's suicidal attack at franklin, tennessee, in november of that year, there were three times that core commander positions became nope t