In the latest episode of The Backstory, deputy magazine editor Elizabeth Ralph explores the different ways that slavery and the Confederacy have been memorialized in American culture, and examines the lives of the less-than-successful people whose namesakes have created controversy. One example: Fort Bragg, named after Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, who is routinely ranked one of the worst generals in the Civil War. Bragg made bad strategic decisions, blamed his men for them, and eventually was demoted by Jefferson Davis after a horrible defeat.
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