Word: breveted
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...many years Gen. Woodford has been prominent in the political and military affairs of the country. In 1857 he was messenger of the New York electoral college which conveyed to Washington the vote for Abraham Lincoln as president. In the Civil War he became brevet-brigadier-general of volunteers and was first military governor of Charleston, S. C. After the war, Gen. Woodford resumed the practice of law, and in 1867 was elected lieutenant-governor of New York He was president of the electoral college that voted for U. S. Grant as president. In 1873 he was a member...
After leaving Harvard, Major Higginson served in the United States volunteers in the Civil War, becoming major and brevet Heutenant-colonel of the 1st Massachusetts cavalry. While serving in the army he was severely wounded at Aldie, Virginia, in June, 1863, and later became one of the members of the firm of Lee, Higginson & Company, bankers, of Boston...
...Cabinet; Senator; Member of Congress; Minister to foreign countries; Judge of the Supreme Conrt, of the District and Circuit Courts, and of the Court of Claims; Governor and Vice-Governor of States; Judge of State Supreme Courts; Major-General U. S. A., and those of higher rank (not by brevet); Rear-Admiral U. S. N., and those of higher rank; offices of similar grade, and honorary appointments under foreign governments...
...from the Triennial Catalogue. It is a never-ceasing source of wonder what could have actuated the Faculty to disgrace the fair name of the College by giving President Grant a degree. Perhaps they expected that the Administration would return the compliment, and make one of our Professors a Brevet Brigadier-General. If they had any such hopes, they were sadly disappointed; the Administration did not live up to the bargain; the President, if he had chosen to, might have signed himself, to his last message, U. S. Grant, LL. D. (Harv.), but we, alas! have not been able...