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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

John W. Braddy

(1839 - 1923)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 48th Georgia Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farmer on his parents' modest place at Gibson in Glascock County, GA. He enlisted there on 4 March 1862 as 5th Sergeant of Company A, 48th Georgia Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right arm or elbow in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was discharged for disability on 19 December 1863 at Rapidan Station, VA.

After the War

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer in Gibson, GA. In 1900 he was a day laborer in Mitchell, GA, but was again farming there by 1910.

References & notes

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Joseph was also in Company A and wounded at Sharpsburg.

Birth

01/24/1839; Mitchell, GA

Death

03/02/1923; in GA; burial in Braddy - Hilson Cemetery, Glascock County, GA

Notes

1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964, Vol. 5, p. 102 [AotW citation 31742]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31743]

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