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prof. hess: thank you for that generous introduction. i was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book? whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name braxton bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. in other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. and also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the civil war? and never dawned on me to say the most hated men of the civil war, but maybe i should have said that? let me start out with a story, and i know many of you know this story. i overheard at least two people this morning telling this story to somebody else, but they did not know i was sitting next to them. grant memoirs, ulysses as enlisted a story. even though grant himself admitted he did not know if it was true or not, but he said, it is kind of emblematic. the story is before the civil war, braxton bragg in the u.s. army commanded a co
that. i don t think donations are disqualifying at all but if you represented the clinton foundation or clinton herself, it would be a bit disturbing to me but i will take care of that. as to russia, do you have any doubt that the 17 intelligence agency report that was submitted last year or early this year, that russia interfered in our election is acted? senator, this is an issue discussed in my confirmation rate and trouble of you attended that. at the point i access only to the public right. public admission which classified information but what can you tell us down? i know access to classified information and i think that assessment made by the intelligence community is justified based upon investigation, the evidence they had. jeff sessions will testify on capitol hill today. he s expected to get questions from lawmakers about his contacts with russian officials during the 2016th election campaign. this will be the first time he s testified before congre
because the topic is braxton bragg, the but of all jokes. not of particularly humorous crew. fall back on the chief jokes accumulated and led to this really distorted view of both men, but today, we will be talk about braxton bragg. written a fantastic biography of braxton bragg. i believe we have some copies of that volume. we come here because we want to come the case history. we do not want to put forth easy answers, and i think earl has done this on all of his work, he will get you to think long and hard. get you to think that bragg was the second coming of napoleon, but he will get you to ponder and to think about this very important confederate general. it is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [applause] prof. hess: thank you for that generous introduction. i was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book? whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name braxton bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is alm
view of both men, but today, we will be talk about braxton bragg. written a fantastic biography of braxton bragg. i believe we have some copies of that volume. we come here because we want to come the case history. we do not want to put forth easy answers, and i think earl has done this on all of his work, he will get you to think long and hard. get you to think that bragg was the second coming of napoleon, but he will get you to ponder and to think about this very important confederate general. it is my pleasure to welcome earl hess. [applause] prof. hess: thank you for that generous introduction. i was thinking about it this morning, what made me to this book? whenever you go to a civil war roundtable and mention the name braxton bragg, there is laughter coming up the audience because in some ways, it is almost a joke in some ways. in other ways, as pete says, a cheap joke. and also the question this morning as someone asked of holeck theragg or most divided person of the c