Edward S. Bragg
Bragg, Edward Stuyvesant (1827–1912), a United States army officer. He was born in Otsego County, New York. Bragg practiced law in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, before entering the Union Army in 1861. He rose from captain to brigadier general of volunteers, and after June, 1864, commanded the “Iron Brigade” in the Army of the Potomac. He was elected as a Democrat to the House of Representatives from Wisconsin in 1876 and served four terms. In seconding Grover Cleveland's nomination for President in 1884 Bragg said, “We love him for the enemies he has made.”