Maya Temples: Like many Maya buildings, Maya temples were built of stone, with platforms on the top where wooden and thatch structures could be built. Temples tended to be pyramids, with steep stone steps leading to the top, where important ceremonies and sacrifices took place.
role in. P.G.T. Braxton Bragg, (born March 22, 1817, Warrenton, N.C., U.S.âdied Sept. 27, 1876, Galveston, Texas), Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861â65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them.
Braxton Bragg: Braxton Bragg, Confederate officer in the U.S. Civil War (1861â65) whose successes in the West were dissipated when he failed to follow up on them. After graduating in 1837 from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., Bragg served in the Seminole Wars and the Mexican War (1846â48). As a major general in the Confederate Army, he commanded a corps at Shiloh (April 1862) and, upon the death of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston in that battle, was promoted to full generalâs rank.