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Brodhead, Thornton F

soldier, lawyer, public official, was born in 1822 in New Hampshire. He served through the Mexican war as an officer in the fifteenth infantry, and was twice brevetted for bravery. Resuming the practice of his profession after the war, he was elected to the state senate, and in 1852 appointed postmaster of Detroit. At the beginning of the civil war he raised the first Michigan cavalry regiment, at the head of which he served under Gens. Banks, Fremont and Pope. He died Aug. 31, 1862, in Alexandria, Va., of wounds received at the second battle of Bull Run.