The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-23
BRAGG IS HERE.
He Was in Command of
the Iron Brigade.
Sc Give Them More Grape, Captain"
Civil and Military Record of the
Old WarhOrSe.

General Edward S. Bragg, Ex-Governor
of Wisconsin and commander of the famous
Iron Brigade during the Civil War, is at
the Occidental.
Since the war he has been praeticing
law, and resides at Fond du Lac. which
has been his home for forty-three years.
He came to California two months ago,
and has been attending to some legal BUSH
ness in Los Angeles. Que of his daugh-
tiers Is the wife of NJ. B. Sherman, an Off
Ger on board the coast-defense vessel
Monterey, and the old warhorse came
hither to visit his daughter and grandchil-
dren.
General Bragg commenced his military
career In 1861 as captain of Wisconsin
volunteer company, which he raised him
SELF He participated in all the battles of
the Army of the Potomac, except the
PeniDsnlar. Gettysburg and Five Forks.
gained celebrity for the manner in which
he handled his men in various engage
ments. their courage under fire gaining
them the SObriquet of the Iron Brigade.
Bragg was gradually promoted until he
reached the rank of brigadier-general The
Iron Brigade was originally commanded
by Gtobon. who retired from the Depart
ment of California two years ago. The
Brigade comprised three Wisconsin COM
panes. one Indiana and one from Michi-
gan. 1t fought division OF jackson
corps at Gainesville. preliminary TO the
second battle of Bull Run, and subse-
quently gained additional renown at South
Mountain. The brigade also acquitted
itself molly at Antietam. General Bragg
was mustered out in 1865.
After the war he served a term in the
Wisconsin State Senate. and was subse-
quently elected to Congress for three sue
cessive terms. During his Congressional
career he was regarded as most danger
NTCk A0.o al
Small of stature, but Delligerent in bear
ing, he was perpetually in the thick of the
fight. and had few equals in his power of
acrimonious retort and inyective. Al
though intensely Democrat in partisan
sense, he could never be counted upon to
vote steadily with his party. He served on
important committees, doing specially good
work in connection with appropriations.
General Bragg served term as GoveI-
nor of Wisconsin, but it was in Demo-
cratic national conventions that he
achieved his greatest civil prominence.
In 1884 he seconded Cleyeland's nomina-
ton for the Presidency. and in 1888 at the
Chicago convention, when the Tammany
wing of the New York delegation wished
to cast the State vote not as a unit but by
individual ballot, Bragg made scathiag
denunciation of Tammany in a speech be-
fore the convention.
Give them more grape. CAPTAIN"
shouted man in the gallery in stentorian
tones, using General Zachary TayIor's
famous words to another Bragg during the
Mexican war, and the convention went
mad with enthusiasm.
Law is my business and politics my
pastime." said General Bragg. epigramat-
ically, in his room at the Occiden tai last
night. II am devcting all my attention to
my business and have no time for any
thing else. No; l have no opinion to ex-
press about the silver bill or the Chinese
question. ! haven't had time to read
paper for two months. and now that |
have time / am devoting all my energies
20 resting. l shall be here few days and
shall then proceed homeward."
General Bragg is a short, slight man,
with closely cropped white beard and
white hair. In facial expression he bears
slight resemblance to Senate. Sherman,
but in manner he is as genial and unaf-
fected as the Ohio statesman is reserved
and severe,