Excerpts from "Autobiography of an Ordinary Man, by Reverend Harrison Bradford," 11 April 1925:
"I was born in a little village on the banks of the Mississippi River on the first day of January 1848, a little over 77 years ago. This little village, Port Hudson, was afterwards made famous during the War between the States by the protracted siege by the Yankees, under General Banks.
...By the by, I neglected to state that we had a colored Confederate soldier in our squad, and when he found me in a hand to hand fight with the (colored) Yankee soldier, he came to my rescue and helped in bringing the Yank to the ground. The statement made by the other white members of our squad was that “Bill Hamner”, the colored Confederate soldier, (who died in the fight) had saved my life in shooting the colored Yankee soldier.
,,,It would have been better for us to have set the negroes free and to have given them 100 acres of land each, and a thousand dollars apiece to start in business with, rather than to have fought the war through and suffered as we did.
...May 29, 1925 Confederate Veterans(UVC) Reunion, Dallas, Texas: "I met one old fellow from North Carolina, who was around eighty years of age, nearly blind, who appeared to be pretty well worn out. There is an old veteran here from Comanche, Texas, who is 109 years old; and another who is 78 and claims to be the youngest Confederate Veteran attending the Reunion, but I think I can beat him as to being the youngest, as I was only fourteen and a half years old when I joined the Signal Corps under Captain Youngblood at Port Hudson in September 1862. I am now seventy-seven years old.
....Such is life. A few short years we live here, die, and are buried, and then in another short period, are forgotten. 'Lord, we pray Thee to so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'"
"I was born in a little village on the banks of the Mississippi River on the first day of January 1848, a little over 77 years ago. This little village, Port Hudson, was afterwards made famous during the War between the States by the protracted siege by the Yankees, under General Banks.
...By the by, I neglected to state that we had a colored Confederate soldier in our squad, and when he found me in a hand to hand fight with the (colored) Yankee soldier, he came to my rescue and helped in bringing the Yank to the ground. The statement made by the other white members of our squad was that “Bill Hamner”, the colored Confederate soldier, (who died in the fight) had saved my life in shooting the colored Yankee soldier.
,,,It would have been better for us to have set the negroes free and to have given them 100 acres of land each, and a thousand dollars apiece to start in business with, rather than to have fought the war through and suffered as we did.
...May 29, 1925 Confederate Veterans(UVC) Reunion, Dallas, Texas: "I met one old fellow from North Carolina, who was around eighty years of age, nearly blind, who appeared to be pretty well worn out. There is an old veteran here from Comanche, Texas, who is 109 years old; and another who is 78 and claims to be the youngest Confederate Veteran attending the Reunion, but I think I can beat him as to being the youngest, as I was only fourteen and a half years old when I joined the Signal Corps under Captain Youngblood at Port Hudson in September 1862. I am now seventy-seven years old.
....Such is life. A few short years we live here, die, and are buried, and then in another short period, are forgotten. 'Lord, we pray Thee to so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'"
Excerpts from "Autobiography of an Ordinary Man, by Reverend Harrison Bradford," 11 April 1925:
"I was born in a little village on the banks of the Mississippi River on the first day of January 1848, a little over 77 years ago. This little village, Port Hudson, was afterwards made famous during the War between the States by the protracted siege by the Yankees, under General Banks.
...By the by, I neglected to state that we had a colored Confederate soldier in our squad, and when he found me in a hand to hand fight with the (colored) Yankee soldier, he came to my rescue and helped in bringing the Yank to the ground. The statement made by the other white members of our squad was that “Bill Hamner”, the colored Confederate soldier, (who died in the fight) had saved my life in shooting the colored Yankee soldier.
,,,It would have been better for us to have set the negroes free and to have given them 100 acres of land each, and a thousand dollars apiece to start in business with, rather than to have fought the war through and suffered as we did.
...May 29, 1925 Confederate Veterans(UVC) Reunion, Dallas, Texas: "I met one old fellow from North Carolina, who was around eighty years of age, nearly blind, who appeared to be pretty well worn out. There is an old veteran here from Comanche, Texas, who is 109 years old; and another who is 78 and claims to be the youngest Confederate Veteran attending the Reunion, but I think I can beat him as to being the youngest, as I was only fourteen and a half years old when I joined the Signal Corps under Captain Youngblood at Port Hudson in September 1862. I am now seventy-seven years old.
....Such is life. A few short years we live here, die, and are buried, and then in another short period, are forgotten. 'Lord, we pray Thee to so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'"
"I was born in a little village on the banks of the Mississippi River on the first day of January 1848, a little over 77 years ago. This little village, Port Hudson, was afterwards made famous during the War between the States by the protracted siege by the Yankees, under General Banks.
...By the by, I neglected to state that we had a colored Confederate soldier in our squad, and when he found me in a hand to hand fight with the (colored) Yankee soldier, he came to my rescue and helped in bringing the Yank to the ground. The statement made by the other white members of our squad was that “Bill Hamner”, the colored Confederate soldier, (who died in the fight) had saved my life in shooting the colored Yankee soldier.
,,,It would have been better for us to have set the negroes free and to have given them 100 acres of land each, and a thousand dollars apiece to start in business with, rather than to have fought the war through and suffered as we did.
...May 29, 1925 Confederate Veterans(UVC) Reunion, Dallas, Texas: "I met one old fellow from North Carolina, who was around eighty years of age, nearly blind, who appeared to be pretty well worn out. There is an old veteran here from Comanche, Texas, who is 109 years old; and another who is 78 and claims to be the youngest Confederate Veteran attending the Reunion, but I think I can beat him as to being the youngest, as I was only fourteen and a half years old when I joined the Signal Corps under Captain Youngblood at Port Hudson in September 1862. I am now seventy-seven years old.
....Such is life. A few short years we live here, die, and are buried, and then in another short period, are forgotten. 'Lord, we pray Thee to so teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.'"
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