Tennesseans at Gettysburg.

[Will Carry]

William Taylor Bradley served in Co. B, 7th Tennessee Infantry. He walked 106 miles from LaFollette, TN to enlisted in Sumner County with his cousin on May 28, 1861. He was wounded in right arm and captured at Gettysburg in Pickett's Charge. He was met at the stone wall near the Angle by one of his brother-in-law, William Petrie, a member of the 149th PA, captured him. He was sent to a prison hospital ship in New York Harbor and exchanged. He returned to the 14th Tennessee, and would be wounded severely in head by minie ball at Petersburg, VA. His right eye was also shot out. He was again captured and paroled from hospital at Petersburg when Lee surrendered at Appomattox.

He returned home to find his sister, Mary Violet Bradley-Petrie, a widow with small child. She would marry William Taylor Bradley's best friend, Henry Thomas Williams, who was a sergeant in the 7th Tennessee Infantry. He too, was captured in Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg sent to Ft. Delaware. He was later exchanged, but was captured at Hatcher's Run, Va., April 2, 1865, then sent back to Ft. Delaware, then to Point Lookout. He was paroled June 21, 1865.