John Bratton

General John Bratton

John Bratton (* 7. March 1831 in Winnsboro , Fairfield County , South Carolina ; † 12. January 1898 ) was a brigadier general of the Confederate in the Civil War .

Life

Bratton attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro, graduated in 1850 from South Carolina College , now the University of South Carolina in Columbia , and in 1853 from South Carolina Medical College in Charleston, and worked as a doctor and farmer from 1853 to 1861 in Winnsboro . When the civil war broke out, he volunteered in the Confederate Army and served there throughout the war, ending with the rank of brigadier general .

After the war he went into politics. In 1865 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of South Carolina, the following year he was a member of the State Senate . In 1876 he led his state's delegation to the Democratic National Convention in St. Louis ; four years later he again took part in the Democratic Congress. After the death of Congressman John H. Evins , Bratton took his place in the US House of Representatives from December 8, 1884 to March 3, 1885 .

Then he retired from politics and occupied himself with his plantation near Winnsboro until his death on January 12, 1898.

See also

• List of Confederate Generals in the Civil War

literature

• David J. Eicher, The Civil War in Books: An Analytical Bibliography , University of Illinois, 1997, ISBN 0-252-02273-4 .
• Richard N. Current, Encyclopedia of the Confederacy (1993) (4 vol.) ( ISBN 0-13-275991-8 )
• John H. Eicher & David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands , Stanford University Press, 2001, ISBN 0-8047-3641-3 .
• Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Gray: Lives of the Confederate Commanders , Louisiana State University Press, 1959, ISBN 0-8071-0823-5 .

Web links

• John Bratton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Bratton in the database of Find a Grave (English)