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.
The Battle of Chickamauga had the second highest number of casualties in the American Civil War and only the Battle of Gettysburg accounted for more. Before the Battle of Chickamauga, Rosecrans had quartered his Army of the Cumberland in Middle Tennessee.Buoyed by his victory at the Battle of Stones River, Rosecrans spent his time training and resting his men.However, huge political pressure was put on him by President Lincoln to pursue and finish off Braxton Bragg who commanded the Confederate Army of Tennessee.hattanooga was the centre of a major rail network and was therefore a very important city to hold. Bragg desired to recapture it. Skirmishes occurred from September 17th on but fighting for Chattanooga started in earnest on September 19th. Rosecrans had an army of 60,000 men while Bragg could call on 65,000.