BOSWORTII, JOSEPH. 



BRAGG, BRAXTON. 



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BOSWORTII, JOSEPH, an English scholar, 

 burn about 1790; died in June, INTO. He was 

 i-.lui ;iifl nt Repton Grammar-School, received 

 tin- tlegrees of Master of Arts and Doctor of 

 Laws at Aberdeen, and the honorary degree 

 of I 'octor of Philosophy from the University 

 <>i l.i-ydenin 1881. He subsequently studied 

 nt i ambridge, where he received the degree of 

 Din-tor of Divinity in 1889. He was ordained 

 deacon in 1814, and after holding several liv- 

 ings in England he was British chaplain in 

 Rotterdam and Amsterdam between 1829 and 

 1841, where he translated the Common Prayer- 

 Book into Dutch. In 1857 he was elected a 

 member of Christchurch College, and was 

 soon after appointed Professor of Anglo-Saxon 

 in Oxford. In this position, and by his writings 

 on the Anglo-Saxon language and kindred sub- 

 jects, he gained great renown, being consid- 

 fivl a high authority on this subject. He 

 wrote : " The Elements of Anglo-Saxon Gram- 

 mar "(1823); "A Compendious Grammar of 

 the Primitive English or Anglo-Saxon ; " "A 

 Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language" 

 (1838) ; u The Origin of the Danish Language ; " 

 " Abstract of Scandinavian Literature ; " " Ori- 

 gin of the English, Germanic, and Scandina- 

 vian Languages and Nations ; " and " A Com- 

 pendious Anglo-Saxon Dictionary " (1848). 

 He published "King Alfred's Anglo-Saxon 

 Version of the Historian Orosius " (1855), and 

 " The Description of Europe and the Voyages 

 of Ohthere and Wulfstan," by the same author, 

 both with English translations. He also pub- 

 lished " The Gospels in Gothic of 360, nnd in 

 Anirlo-Saxon of 995, in Parallel Columns with 

 Wy cliff e's Version of 1389 and Tyndale's of 

 1526 " (1865; second edition, 1873). He was a 

 member of the Royal Institute of the Nether- 

 lands, and fellow of numerous foreign literary 

 societies. 



BOWLES, Sir GEORGE, a British general, 

 born in 1787; died in May, 1876. He received 

 his commission as ensign in 1804, and served 

 with Lord Cathcart in the north of Germany 

 in 1805-'6. He took part in the capture of 

 Copenhagen in 1807; served in the Peninsula 

 from 1809 to 1814; was present at the passage 

 of the Douro ; at the battles of Salamanca, 

 Talavera, and Vittpria ; at the sieges of Ciu- 

 dad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Burgos, and San Sebas- 

 tian ; at the capture of Madrid ; at the passages 

 of the Bidassoa, Nivelles, Nive, and Adour, and 

 the investment of Bayonne. He was also 

 present at the battles of Quatre-Bras and 

 Waterloo, and at the capture of Paris. He 

 was created a lieutenant and captain in 1810, 

 major in 1815, lieutenant-colonel in 1821, 

 colonel in 1887, major-general in 1846, liea- 

 tenant-general in 1854, and general in 1862. 

 He was military secretary to the Duke of 

 Richmond in Canada from 1818 to 1820; was 

 deputy adjutant-general in the West Indies 

 from 1820 to 1825, and was stationed in Can- 

 ada from 1887 to 1848, having command of 

 Lower Canada during the rebellion of 1838. 



From 1845 to 1851 he was Master of the 

 Household to the Qaeen. Upon retiring from 

 this office he was appointed Lieutenant of the 

 Tower of London, and was created a K. 0. B. 

 and a G. C. B. in 1878. 



BOYD, Sir HARLKY HUGH, fifth baronet of 

 Ballycastle, county of Antrim, born November 

 2, 1858 ; died in July, 1876, on board the mail- 

 steamer Trenton, off St. Helena. He was the 

 only son of Sir John Augustus PI ugh Boyd, 

 Bart., R. N., by his wife Hotiora Mary, third 

 daughter of the late Charles Biggs Calmady, 

 Esq., of Longdon Hall, Devon. He succeeded 

 to the title on the death of his father, August 

 7, 1857. Dying unmarried, the title reverted 

 to his uncle, the Rev. Frederick Boyd, M. A., 

 rector of Hoi well, Bedfordshire. 



BRAGG, BRAXTON, an American general in 

 the Confederate service, born in Warren 

 County, N. C., about 1815 ; died in Galveston, 

 Texas, September 27, 1876. He graduated at 

 West Point in 1887, was appointed lieutenant 

 of artillery, and served mainly in Florida till 

 1843, during the war with the Seminoles ; from 

 1848 to 1845 he was stationed at Fort Moultrie, 

 in Charleston harbor, and, just before the 

 breaking out of the war with Mexico, was 

 ordered to Texas. In May, 1846, he was made 

 captain by brevet for gallant conduct in the 

 defense of Fort Brown, Texas, and in June was 

 made captain of artillery. He was present at 

 the battle of Monterey, September 21st-23d, 

 and was brevetted as major for gallant conduct 

 there ; and iu 1847 he was brevetted as lieuten- 

 ant-colonel for gallant conduct in the battle of 

 Buena Vista. From 1848 to 1855 he was en- 

 gaged in frontier service at Jefferson Bar- 

 racks, Mo., Fort Gibson, and Washita. In 

 March, 1855, he was appointed major of cav- 

 alry, but declined, and received leave of absence. 

 In January, 1856, he resigned his commission 

 in the army, and retired to his plantation at 

 Thibodeaux, La. In 1859-'61 he was Commis- 

 sioner of the Board of Public Works of the 

 State of Louisiana. When the civil war broke 

 out he joined the Confederate side, was ap- 

 pointed brigadier-general, and placed in com- 

 mand at Pensacola. In February, 1862, he was 

 made major-general, and ordered to join the 

 Army of the Mississippi. He took part in the 

 battle of Shiloh, April 6th and 7th ; was raised 

 to the full rank of general in place of General 

 A. 8. Johnston, killed at Shiloh ; and after the 

 evacuation of Corinth succeeded General Beau- 

 regard in command of the department. In Au- 

 gust he left Tennessee at the head of a strong 

 force, and entered Kentucky, but, after the 

 battle of Perryville, October 8th, was forced to 

 retreat, carrying with him a vast amount of 

 supplies and many recruits from Kentucky. He 

 was removed from his command and placed 

 under arrest, but was soon restored, and re- 

 sumed command of the force opposed to the 

 Federal army under Rosecrans. He was 

 checked by Rosecrans in the protracted contest 

 of Stone River or Murfreesboro, December 26, 



