Benjamin Franklin Bradley

Benjamin Franklin Bradley (born October 5, 1825 in Georgetown , Kentucky , † January 22, 1897 ibid) was an American farmer and politician and officer in the Confederate Army .

Career

Benjamin Franklin Bradley, son of Sallie Suggett and John Bradley, was born and raised in Scott County about ten and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He graduated from Georgetown College and then at Transylvania University in Lexington ( Fayette County ). His student days were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 . He then worked as a farmer. After the outbreak of the Mexican-American War , he enlisted in the US Army and served during the war. He married Emily Sanders. After the outbreak of the Civil War , he enlisted on August 19, 1861 in the Kentucky State Guard, where he held the rank of captain . On November 26, 1861 he became assistant adjutant general to Brigadier General Humphrey Marshall (1812–1872). He was named a major in the Kentucky Mounted Rifles 1st Battalion on May 10, 1862 . Because of a liver disease he resigned from the Confederate Army on September 10, 1862. Bradley was then elected to the Second Confederate Congress for the eleventh constituency of Kentucky , where he served from 1864 through the end of the Confederation in 1865. During his time in Congress he was on the Ordnance Committee. After the war was over, he served as a circuit clerk in Scott County and served in the Kentucky Senate in 1889 . He died in Georgetown in 1897 and was buried there in the city cemetery.

literature

• Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt: Kentuckians in Gray: Confederate Generals and Field Officers of the Bluegrass State , University Press of Kentucky, ISBN 9780813172835 , p. 282

Web links

• Benjamin Franklin Bradley in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Benjamin Franklin Bradley on The Political Graveyard website