R. Bradley

Federal (USV)

Private

Ralph Bradley

(1844 - 1921)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 155th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

An 18 year old coal miner living in Temperanceville, he enlisted in Company I, 155th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 August 1862.

The rest of the War

He served from Antietam to Mine Run, then was transferred to 24th Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, on March 7, 1864. He was discharged by General Order, May 24, 1865.

References & notes

Basic information and his picture from Porter1, with details from Bates and his index cards, who has him as Alfred Bradley. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

1844

Death

1921; burial in Chartiers Cemetery, Carnegie, PA

Notes

1 Porter, John T. , Financial Secretary, and Charles F. McKenna, compiler & editor, Under the Maltese Cross, Antietam to Appomattox, the Loyal Uprising in Western Pennsylvania, 1861-1865: Campaigns of the 155th Pennsylvania Regiment, Pittsburgh: 155th Regimental Association, 1910, pp. 492 - 592 [AotW citation 13606]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 13629]

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