Edward S. Bragg's Postwar Career and Family

After the war, Bragg returned to Fond Du Lac, Wisconsin, and continued with his legal career.  He was very involved in politics, serving in the Wisconsin State Senate and as a U.S. Representative.    Most of the time we was very active as a Democrat, but eventually split with that political party, becoming a Republican.

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FAMILY

Bragg married  Cornelia Colman on January 2, 1854.  She was the granddaughter of Colonel Nathaniel Rochester, a Revolutionary War soldiers and namesake and one of the founders of Rochester, New York.  They had three sons and three daughters, although two of the sons died young.  One daughter married George Percival Scriven, career soldier and the first chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the forerunner of today's NASA.

Bragg was also a cousin to Frederick William Benteen of the U.S. 7th Cavalry under  George Armstrong Custer.  he was a major figure in the action at the Battle of the Little Big Horn

He was also cousin to Confederate General Braxton Bragg, though they never met each other on the battlefield.

--Old Secesh