Bragg, BRAXTON, Confederate general, born in North Carolina, 22d March 1817, graduated at the United States military academy in 1837, served in the artillery through the Seminole and Mexican wars, rising by successive brevets for gallantry in action to the rank of lieutenant-colonel, and retired in 1856. He commanded in several great battles of the civil war, and was for a time military adviser to the Confederate president. He died in Galveston, Texas, 27th September 1876.—His brother, THOMAS, born in 1810, was governor of North Carolina, 1854-58, United States senator, 1859-61, and attorney-general in Jefferson Davis' cabinet, 1861-63. He died in Raleigh, 21st January 1872.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 385–386
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