HKAINARD.
BRAINERD.
erly point of tlie glol>e ever reached b.v man up to
that time (ISSO). They discovered the vast inlet,
wlucli was named by them " Crreely Fiord.""
Th? sufferings of the party at Camp Sabine were
indescril»able. An unusiuvUy severe winter set
in and they were obliged to construct a camp out
of stones, snow, canvas and the remains of an
old Ixxit. Their Ukm.\ supply gave out and the
remnant of the party that was rescued by Captain
Schley, in June. 1884, was only kept alive by the
efforts of Brainard. who i>laced nets under the
ice. and thus contrived to catch a small quantity
of tish each day. "When the rescuers arrived,
Lockwood had been dead seventy-three days,
and Brainard and his few surviving companions
were just about to succumb. Sergeant Brainard
kept account of the food supplies during this try-
ing time of privation, and Lieutenant (ireely
has made especial mention of his heroism in this
connection: *' I firmly believe,"' wrote he, "that
not one ounce of unauthorized food passed his
lips during all tliat terrible winter. That a starv-
ing man for months could daily handle such
amounts of food and not take for himself speaks
volumes for liis courage. "' He was commissioned
2d lieutenant Oct. 22. 1886, and assigned to the
2d cavalry; 1st lieutenant. Aug. 14, 1898; captain,
Oct. 14, 189b, and assigned to the commissary
department. He became chief conimissarj' in the
subsistence department and lieutenant-colonel of
volunteers, May 9. 1898: colonel. Nov. 8. 1898;
major, Feb. 14, 1900. and became purcha.sing com-
mi«ary at the Army buiMiny. Xew York city.
BRAINARD, John Gardiner Calkins, poet, was Iwirn at New Lomlon. Conn., Oct. 21, 1796; son of Jeremiah G. Brainard, judge of the Con- necticut supreme court. He was graduated from Yale college in 1815, and entered the law office of his brother, William L. Brainard. In 1819 he was admitted to the bar, and opened a law office at Middletown, Conn., but was unsuc- cessful in practice, and in February, 1822, he be- came editor of the Connecticut Mirror in Hart- ford. In the columns of tliis paper he published many of his early poems, but while the literary tone of the journal was of a high order, treat- ment of current topics in his editorial column was hasty and weak. He resigned his position in 1827. and resided for a time on Long Island. His publications are: " Occasional Pieces of Poetry " (182.'i), and "Literary Remains of Jolm G. C. Brainard," with a sketch of his life, by J. G. Whittier nH32, :W ed.. 1846). He died in New Ix.ndon. Conn.. Sept. 26. 1828.
BRAINE, Daniel Lawrence, naval officer, was born in New York city. May 18, 1829. He was e«lucate<l in the New York public schools and in the Newburg seminary, and in 1846 was appointed milshi^man from the state of Texas. During
the Mexican war he was attaclied to the home
squadron, and was in the naval engagements at
Alvarado, Tabasco, Tuspan, Laguna, Tampico, and
Vera Cruz. In 1 849-' 50 he was attached to the
Pacific squadron; in 1851-*52 he studied at the
naval academy ; from 1852 to 1855 was on a cruise
on the ilediterranean, and from 1858 to 1860 was
engaged in the suppression of the slave trade on
the west coast of Africa. He was appointed com-
mander of the Monticello, when, in April, 1861,
she was fitted out b}^ the New York union defence
committee and .sent to provision Fort Monroe
and blockade the Virginia ports. The MonticeUo,
a month later, participated in the first naval en-
gagement of the war at Sewall's Point, and soon
afterwards led successful attacks on Forts Hat-
teras and Clark. In 1862 he was commissioned
lieutenant commander, and was in command of
the Pequot in the expeditions against Fort Fisher,
Fort Anderson, and the Cape Fear river forts.
His " cool performance of dutj^ " in these engage-
ments won the commendation of Rear- Admiral
Porter, at whose suggestion he was promoted
commander in 1866. Until 1868 he was on duty
in the New York navy yard ; during 1868-"69 he
commanded the Sliamokin, and from 1869 to 1873
he was in charge of the equij^ment department of
the Brooklyn navy yard. In 1873 he commanded
the Juniata, one of the vessels in the fleet sent in
search of the Polaris expedition, and later in the
same year he secured the release of the one hun-
dred and two Virginius prisoners confined at
Santiago de Cuba. He won promotion in 1874
and 1885, and in 1886 he reached the rank of rear-
admiral he commanded the South Atlantic squad-
ron, 1886-"89, and the Brooklyn navy yard, 1889-
'91. He was retired in 1891 and died in Brooklyn
N.Y., Jan. 30, 1W98.
BRAINERD, Cephas, lawyer, was born at Had- dam, Conn., Sept. 8, 1831. He is a descendant of Daniel Brainerd who was one of the original settlers of that town in 1668. In 1853 he began the study of the law in New York under William E. Curtis, subse(iuently chief justice of the suj^e- rior court, and two years later was admitted to the bar, and entered upon the practice of his profession in that city. In 1861 he was apiwinted by President Lincoln arbitrator of the mixed court, for the suppression of the slave trade. While acting in this capacity he became a close .student of international law, and subsequently joined the Society for the codification of inter- national law, wliose lieadquarters were in Lon- don. For about ten years he delivered lectures on that brancli, in the law department of tlie uni- versity of the city of New York. He participated from the beginning, in the ten years' struggle be- fore the judiciary committee of the house of rep- resentatives, between the uninsured shipowners
