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Bragg

noun

Confederate general during the American Civil War who was defeated by Grant in the battle of Chattanooga (1817-1876). Synonym: Braxton Bragg.

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"Bragg" Quotes from Famous Books

... mother and I were now made acquainted with the family and friends of my fiancee. Her father, Colonel MacClanahan, a man of six feet five inches in height, had been Judge Advocate General on the Staff of Braxton Bragg and had fought under General Robert E. Lee. He was a Southerner of Scotch extraction, having been born and brought up in Tennessee. A lawyer by training, after the war, when everything that belonged to him was destroyed ...

— A Labrador Doctor - The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell • Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

... taken from the London copy of 1708, as "Printed and sold by B. Bragg, at the Raven, in Pater-Noster-row ...

— The Sot-weed Factor: or, A Voyage to Maryland • Ebenezer Cook

... and critics of all such performances; such conversations, that both form and improve the taste, and whet the judgment; are surely preferable to the conversations of our mixed companies here; which, if they happen to rise above bragg and whist, infallibly stop short of everything either ...

— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield

Words linked to "Bragg" : full general, Braxton Bragg, general