[474] was its editor and proprietor and then co-proprietor until 1882. For the last four years he has devoted most of his time to his farming interests. He is commander of Camp Hawthorn, U. C. V., of Easley. He was married October 3, 1865, to Mary B. Breazeale daughter of Griffin Breazeale, of Pickens county.
Isaac Whiteworth Bradley enlisted in the Confederate service about July 1, 1861, in Harrington's company, of the Ninth South Carolina infantry, and served with the company as a private soldier until the reorganization of the army in the spring of 1862. He then joined Company E, Sixth South Carolina infantry, and fought with that command until the war ended. He was with the command at the surrender at Appomattox, thus serving steadily four years, his battles being Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, Wilderness, Spottsylvania Court House, Lookout Mountain, siege of Petersburg, charge on Fort Harrison, and in the retreat to Appomattox, where Lee's army surrendered. At the battle of Seven Pines he was so severely wounded by a minie ball in the right elbow that he could not render service for about six weeks. After the surrender he returned to farming, and has served as one of the magistrates of Sumter county at Mayesville. He was born in Sumter county, S. C., November 3, 1837, was educated in the schools of his native county, attended a preparatory school at Winnsboro, S. C., for two years and then spent one year at Chapel Hill, N. C. He commenced farming in Sumter county, and was thus engaged when the war broke out. He was married in June, 1865, to Miss Lizzie Rhodes, of Sumter county, S. C., who died in 1885, leaving seven children: Louise L., now Mrs. L. L. Corbett, of Mayesville; Bessie S., Janie, Viva, now Mrs. R. J. Mayes, of Mayesville; William M., now being educated for the medical profession; Mary D., and Daisy. He is a member of Camp Dick Anderson, U. C. V., at Sumter.
Napoleon Bonaparte Bratton
Napoleon Bonaparte Bratton, of Brattonsville, was born at his present abode, the ancestral home of his family, in 1838, the youngest of fourteen children of John Bratton and his wife, Harriet, daughter of James Rainey, a wealthy planter of York county. His father was a graduate of the Jefferson medical college, Philadelphia,
