From Wikipedia.
I'd never heard of this man until I saw that a Wisconsin senator had suggested that Fort Bragg in North Carolina, named after Confederate general Braxton Bragg had a cousin with the same last name who fought for the Union during the war. He suggests saving money on the name change and just naming after Edward Bragg.
EDWARD STUYVESANT BRAGG
(February 20, 1827 to June 20, 1912)
American politician, lawyer, soldier, diplomat. He was an accomplished Union Army officer during the Civil War and served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives representing Wisconsin. He was later U.S. Minister to Mexico during the Presidency of Grover Cleveland and consul-general to the Republic of China and British Hong Kong under President Theodore Roosevelt.
He was born in New York and went to Wisconsin in 1850 where he settled in Fond du Lac and was a lawyer.
--Old Secesh
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