1. John Bratton was a US Representative from South Carolina, as well as a general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.
27 Facts About John Bratton
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John Bratton rose from private to brigadier general and led a regiment and brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia in several important battles in both the Eastern Theater and Western Theater during the war.
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John Bratton attended the Academy of Mount Zion Institute in Winnsboro and graduated from South Carolina College at Columbia in 1850 and from South Carolina Medical College at Charleston in 1853.
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John Bratton practiced medicine in Winnsboro from 1853 to 1861.
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John Bratton was one of only a few men who enlisted in the Confederate Army as a private, rose to the rank of brigadier general, and fought in both Eastern and Western theaters during the Civil War.
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John Bratton enlisted in the Confederate States Army on April 1,1861, as a private in Company C of the 6th South Carolina Infantry and was promoted a month later to captain.
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John Bratton participated in the Peninsula Campaign and was wounded and captured in the Battle of Seven Pines.
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Richard H Anderson, Bratton led the 6th South Carolina Regiment in an assault on several isolated Union entrenchments west of Seven Pines, Virginia.
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Philip Kearny saw to it that John Bratton received the utmost care.
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John Bratton was released two months later on August 31,1862.
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John Bratton rejoined his regiment in October 1862 and participated in the Battle of Fredericksburg in December.
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John Bratton was present in several battles in the Tennessee area, including the Chattanooga Campaign and the Knoxville Campaign.
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John Bratton's regiment did not reach the Army of Tennessee until after the Battle of Chickamauga.
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John Bell Hood after he was wounded at Chickamauga and Bratton served as brigade commander.
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John Bratton was promoted to brigadier general dating from May 6,1864.
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John Bratton led an infantry brigade in the Army of Northern Virginia for most of the rest of the war, seeing action in such battles as the Wilderness, Spotsylvania Court House, and Cold Harbor.
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John Bratton then participated in the defense of Petersburg and was wounded in the shoulder at the Battle of Darbytown Road.
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John Bratton surrendered his brigade, the largest in the Army of Northern Virginia at the end of the war, at Appomattox Court House in April 1865 and was paroled on April 9.
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John Bratton entered politics during Reconstruction as a supporter of the conservative Democratic regime dominated by Gen.
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John Bratton served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1865.
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John Bratton represented Fairfield in the South Carolina Senate in 1866.
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John Bratton served as chairman of the South Carolina delegation in the 1876 Democratic National Convention.
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John Bratton served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1880.
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John Bratton was elected comptroller general of South Carolina by the legislature, to fill a vacancy, in 1881.
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John Bratton was not a candidate for renomination in 1884.
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John Bratton retired from active politics and again engaged in planting at "Farmington" near Winnsboro.
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John Bratton was interred in St John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.