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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Bradley

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer from Weogufka, AL, he enlisted in Coosa County, AL on 26 March 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company H, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was at Gettysburg in July 1863 but captured in a rearguard action at Falling Waters, VA on 14 July 1863. He was briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Point Lookout, MD on 9 August. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States on 13 December 1863 and was "sent north" on 17 December with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2

Birth

c. 1844 in AL

Notes

1 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 32356]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32357]

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