Fort Bragg in North Carolin, General Braxton Bragg.

(March 22, 1817 – September 27, 1876)

Native of Warrenton, North Carolina,

Graduated fifth of fifty cadets from the West Point Class of 1837

Resigned from the U.S. Army effective January 3, 1856 to become a

Sugar plantation owner in Louisiana near Thibodaux

Elected to the Board of Public Works in 1860

Before the start of the Civil War, Bragg was a colonel in the Louisiana

Militia

December 12, 1860, Governor Thomas O. Moore appointed him to the
state military board, an organization charged with creating a 5,000-man
army. He took the assignment, even though he had been opposed to

secession. On January 11, 1861, Bragg led a group of 500 volunteers to

Baton Rouge, where they persuaded the commander of the federal

arsenal there to surrender

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Fort Lee in Prince George County, Virginia, named for Confederate General

Robert E. Lee. (January 19, 1807 – October 12, 1870)

Graduated second in his West Point Class of 1829.

April 18, 1861, he was called to Washington and was offered command of a new

army being formed to force the seceded states back into the Union. Lee

opposed secession, but he also opposed war and “could take no part in

an invasion of the Southern states.”
Resigned his commission April 20, 1861