Edward Stuyvesant Bragg

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Union Army General (1827-1912)

United States PoliticiansLived 1827 to 1912 · aged 85

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Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Democratic politician from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. S. House of Representatives, representing eastern Wisconsin from 1877 to 1883, and from 1885 to 1887, and was one of the leading Democrats in Wisconsin in the latter half of the 19th century.

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A sketch by Major Rufus Dawes of the location of forces at the Battle of Gainesville

6th Wisconsin attacking at Turner's Gap, 1862.

Bragg after promotion to Brigadier General

We love him for the enemies he made. In Harper's Weekly, 1884.

Cornelia, wife of Edward S. Bragg

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Edward Stuyvesant Bragg was an American lawyer, diplomat, and Democratic politician from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing eastern Wisconsin from 1877 to 1883, and from 1885 to 1887, and was one of the leading Democrats in Wisconsin in the latter half of the 19th century. He also had a distinguished military career as a Union Army officer in the American Civil War, leading the 6th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment and later the famous Iron Brigade of the Army of the Potomac, rising to the rank of brigadier general by the end of the war.

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