A. V. Bragg, Ouachita County, AR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SOURCE: Chicago: The Goodspeed Publishing Co., 1889. Contributed by Betsy Mills. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ouachita County, Arkansas - from Goodspeed's History of Arkansas p. 657: A. V. Bragg, planter, Camden, Ark. This native-born resident of the county, was born on the place where he now resides in 1845, and is the fifth of seven children, the result of the union of P. N. and Martha W. (Crook) Bragg [see sketch of J. N. Bragg]. A. V. Bragg was educated in Camden, this county, and at the age of eighteen years joined the Confederate army, Company B., Thirty-third Arkansas Regiment Infantry, Lappin's Brigade, Churchill's Division, as private, and served until the close of the war. He participated in the battle of Camden and Jenkins' Ferry, his regiment losing ninety-two men out of 200 at the latter place. At the latter place he returned home and resumed farming on his present property, which was entered by his father in 1843, and which consisted of 800 acres. Mr. Bragg has since added to this about 800 acres, and how has about 400 or 500 acres under a fine state of cultivation, with a steam gin on the place, good residences and out buildings, etc. He produces annually about eighty bales of cotton, and gins annually about 175 bales. He also raises mules, horses and cattle, and is one of the leading farmers of this section. At the close of the war, Mr. Bragg like a great many other men, was financially a bankrupt, but he went to work with the determination to succeed, and is now in very comfortable circumstances indeed. The Bragg family is one of the oldest in the State, and our subject's father was one of the pioneer settlers of this county. He died in 1855, and the mother in 1879. In 1882 Mr. Bragg was elected to the office of sheriff, and succeeded himself in 1884, holding the office for four years, and serving with credit to himself and to the satisfaction of the people. Mr. Bragg is a relative of Gen. Braxter Bragg, of the late war. He is one of the leading farmers of the county, and a man universally respected.