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 Confederate president protected incompetents, such as Braxton Bragg, and he did not make use of talented men he disliked, such as Joseph E. Johnston. In April 1865 the Union armies finally surrounded Richmond, and Davis and his family fled the city for the Deep South, only to be captured in Georgia in May.