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Officers of the Army of Tennessee.[from our own correspondent.] Thomaston, Ga., Dec. 26th, 1863.
General Bragg.
Taking the Generals in the Army of Tennessee in the order of their rank, I would remark that Gen. Braxton Bragg, the late Commander in Chief was born in the good old State of North Carolina about the year 1815, and is consequently about forty-eight years of age. He entered the West Point. Academy in 1833, in the same class with Maj.-Gen. W. H. T. Walker, of Georgia, between whom and himself there has ever since existed mutual friendship and confidence.
The country is familiar with Gen. Bragg's career in Mexico, and with the distinguished services he rendered during the war with that country as an artillerist.
Some time after the war, and during Mr. Pierce's administration, he resigned his commission in the army on account of some ruling by Mr. Davis, the Secretary of War, and retired to his plantation in Mississippi.
When the present war broke out, it fou