John Flemmons Tine Bradley

A 19 year old farmer, he enlisted in Athens, TX as a Private in Company K, 4th Texas Infantry on 11 July 1861 and was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 September 1862.

He was in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was 3rd Sergeant by November and was promoted to First Sergeant on 1 February 1863. He was wounded at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863 and captured at Cashtown on 5 July. He was in the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA to 17 August, when he was sent to City Point, VA for exchange. By 22 August he was at CSA Camp Lewis near Petersburg, VA and was afterward in hospitals and on furlough until he rejoined his Company on 16 February 1864.

He was wounded again, in his left leg in the Wilderness, VA on 6 May 1864, his leg was amputated, and he was on furlough and in hospitals to 3 January 1865, when he was furloughed from the CS Army General Hospital #11 in Charlotte, NC. He signed a parole on 1 June 1865 in Montgomery, AL.

In 1870 he was a farm worker back on his father's place at Athens in Henderson County, TX. In 1881 he was granted a piece of land in Van Zandt County as a disabled veteran, and was farming there to 1910; all 7 of his children were on the farm with him or next door in 1900.

Service information from Davis1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, both as J.F.T. Bradley. Personal details from family genealogists, notably great grandson Don Lindsey, and the US Census of 1860-1910; he's also seen as John Flinn T. Bradley, probably in error. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ellen Burns (1855-1934) in September 1879 and they had 7 children.

03/28/1842 in AL

06/03/1910; Van Zandt County, TX; burial in Cool Springs Cemetery, Van Zandt County, TX