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Beauregard in command of the department. In August he led a formidable force of fortyfive thousand men into Kentucky. After the civil war he became chief engineer for the state of Alabama. He died Sept. 27, 1876, in Galveston, Texas. Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant, soldier, lawyer, diplomat, congressman, was born Feb. 20, 1827, in Unadilla, N.Y. He moved to Fond du Lac, Wis.; and was elected district attorney in 1854. He served in the union army in 1861-65; rising to the rank of brigadier-general. He was appointed postmaster of Fond du Lac in 1866 was a state senator in 1868-69; and was a delegate to the democratic national convention of 1872. In 187783 and 1885-87 he was a representative from Wisconsin to the forty-fifth, forty-sixth, forty-seventh and forty-ninth congresses. In 1888 he was appointed minister to Mexico. Bragg, John, congressman, was born in North Carolina. In 1851-53 he was a representative from Alabama to the thirty-second congress. He declined a re-election and devoted himself to agricultural pursuits. He died

Pierce and Buchanan he was surgeon of the marine hospital of Chicago. He was a corresponding member of the societies of surgery of Paris and Geneva. He was the author of a work on Rattlesnake Bites; and Ununited Fractures and Deformities. He died Oct. 10, 1866, in Cbicago, 111. Brainard, David Legg, soldier, explorer, was born Dec. 31, 1856, in Norway, N.Y. He attended the state normal school at Cortland, N.Y. He partici-

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Bragg, Thomas, lawyer. United States senator, governor, was born Nov. 9, 1810, in Warrenton, N.C. In 1842 he was elected to the assembly of North Carolina; and in 1853 was a presidential elector. He was the twenty-sixth governor of North Carolina for two terms in 1855-59. In 1859-61 he was United States senator. He died Jan. 21, 1872, in Raleigh, N.C. Bragg, William Chittenden, lawyer, author, was born in 1845 in Missouri. He was a lawyer of St. Louis, Mo. He is the author of Digest of Missouri Court of Appeals; and Missouri Masonic Laws. Brailey, Moses Randolph, soldier, was born in New York. In 1862 he became major in the thirty-eighth regiment Ohio infantry; and in 1865 was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers. Brain, Belle Marvel, artist, author, was born Aug. 4, 1859, in Springfield, Ohio. In 1878-95 she was supervisor of drawing at the Springfield public schools. She is the author of Fuel for Missionary Fires; Weapons for

Temperance Warfare; The Morning Watch; Quaint Thoughts of an Old-Time Army Chaplain; The Transformation of Hawaii; Fifty Missionary Stories; and The Redemption of the Redman.

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Edwin Bell, builder, poet, was 27, 1853, in London, England. He

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wounded in the face in action with the Sioux at Muddy Creek in 1877. In the following August he was one of the four men selected to act as escort to General Sher-



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man and party in their tour through the national park. In 1879 he was promoted sergeant'; and in 1880 was recommended for detail on the Ho'wgate polar expedition. He was one of the three who in 1882 attained the highest northern point on the globe ever reached by man. During the -Spanish-American war he was promoted to colonel and chief commissary of the United States volunteers and was promoted to lieutenant-colonel

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Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins, journalpoet, was born Oct. 21, 1796, In New London, Conn. He was for a time editor of the Connecticut Mirror. His Falls of Niagara, written while the printer's boy was waiting for his regular contribution to the paper, is generally considered the best short poem written on that subejct. He was the author of a volume of poems. He died Sept. 26, ist,

1828, in

New

London, Conn.

Braine, Daniel Lawrence, naval ofiicer, was born May 18, 1829, in New York City. In 1861 he attacked the confederate gunboats above Cape Hatteras; dispersed two regiments of infantry; and sunk two barges filled with soldiers, rescuing the twentieth Indiana regiment who were cut off from Hatteras inlet by the enemy. In 1862 he received his commission as lieutenant-commander. He became captain in 1874; commodore in 1885; and subsequently attained the rank of rearadmiral. He died Jan. 30, 1898, in Brooklyn,

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served as county commissioner; and is now county treasurer for Rock county. Neb. He is a successful builder and farmer; and has contributed both prose and verse for the past twenty years to the periodical press. Brainard, Daniel, surgeon, lecturer, author,

was born May 15, 1812, in Whitesborough, N.Y. He was the founder of Rusli medical college of Chicago, 111. ; and occupied its chair of surgery in 1843-66. Under Presidents

Braine, Robert Dyer, musician, author, was 20, 1861, in Springfield, Ohio. He is the author of Messages from Mars, or the Strange Revelations of the Telescope Plant. Brainerd, Cephas, lawyer, political economist, was born Sept. 8, 1831, in Haddam, Conn. Since 1855 he has practiced law. Since 1857 he has been director of the New York young men's christian association; and in 1868-93 was chairman of the international committee of that institution. He is active

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