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Civil War Soldiers - Brayman
| Brayman, Mason, brigadier-general, U.S. Army, was
born in Buffalo, N. Y., May 23, 1813. Brought up on a farm, he became
a printer, then editor of the Buffalo "Bulletin," studied law, and in
1836 was admitted to the bar. Removing to the west, he became city
attorney of Monroe, Mich., in 1838, editor of the Louisville "Adviser"
in 1841, opened a law office in Springfield, Ill., in 1842, and in
1844-45 revised the state statutes. In 1843, as special government
commissioner, he adjusted the Mormon disturbances at Nauvoo, and
conducted the negotiations which resulted in the withdrawal of the
Mormons from Illinois. He was from 1851 to 1855 attorney for the
Illinois Central railroad, and then, until the outbreak of the Civil
war, was a promoter of railroad enterprises in Missouri, Arkansas and
the southwest. In 1861 he joined the Union army as major of the 29th
Ill. volunteers, became colonel of the regiment in May, 1862, and
fought with such conspicuous gallantry at the battles of Belmont, Fort
Donelson and Shiloh that he was promoted brigadier-general of
volunteers. He was in command at Bolivar, Tenn., when Van Dorn's
attack was successfully repulsed. He afterwards reorganized about
sixty Ohio regiments, at Fort Dennison; was president of a board of
inquiry to investigate the conduct of Gen. Sturgis, commanded at
Natchez, Tenn., from July, 1864, to May, 1865, and was presiding
officer of a committee to investigate cotton claims. He was mustered
out of the service at the close of the war with the brevet rank of
major-general of volunteers. After the war he was engaged in reviving
railroad interests in the south, was editor of the "Illinois State
Journal" in 1872-73, practiced law in Ripon, Wis., from 1873 to 1877,
and was then appointed by President Hayes governor of Idaho. At the
expiration of his term, in 1880, he resumed the practice of his
profession in Ripon, Wis. He afterwards settled in Kansas City, Mo.,
and died there Feb. 27, 1895.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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