Bounty Jumper
a term used during the Civil War in the United States States military service to secure the to denote one who enlisted in the United States mili bounty paid by the Government for volunteers, and then deserted. an BOURBON (bör-bôn'), an ancient French family which has given three dynasties to Europe, the Bourbons of France, Spain, and Naples. The first of the line known in history is ADHE- MAR, who, at the beginning of the 10th century, was Lord of the Bourbonnais (now the department of Allier). The power and possessions of the family increased steadily through a long series of creased steadily through a long series of BEATRIX, daughter of Agnes of Bourbon and John of Burgundy, married Robert, sixth son of Louis IX. of France, and thus connected the Bourbons with the royal line of the Capets. Their son, dukedom and became the first Duc de Bourbon. Two branches took their or- BOURBON igin from the two sons of this Louis, Duke of Bourbon, who died in 1341. The elder line was that of the Dukes of Bourbon, which became extinct at the death of the Constable of Bourbon in 1527, in the assault on the city of Rome. The younger was that of the Counts of La Marche, afterward Counts and Dukes of Vendôme. From these descended AN- THONY of Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, who, by marriage, acquired the kingdom of Navarre, and whose son, HENRY of Navarre, became Henry IV. of France.
Anthony's younger brother, LOUIS, Prince of Condé, was the founder of the line of Condé. There were, therefore, two chief branches of the Bourbons-the royal, and that of Condé. The royal branch was divided by the two sons of Louis XIII., the elder of whom, LOUIS XIV., continued the chief branch, while PHILIP, the younger son, founded the House of Orleans as the first Duke of that name. The kings of the elder French royal line of the House of Bourbon run in this way: HENRY IV., LOUIS XIII., XIV., XV., XVI., XVII., XVIII., and CHARLES X. The last sovereigns of this line, LOUIS XVI., LOUIS XVIII., and CHARLES X. (LOUIS XVII., son of Louis XVI., never obtained the crown), were brothers, all of them being grandsons of Louis XV. Louis XVIII. had no children, but Charles X. had two sons, viz., LOUIS ANTOINE DE