In Civil War Talk, a member wrote of a William L. Bradford, an Annapolis graduate who resigned from the Union Navy, joined the Confederate and at one time was assigned to Battery Buchanan at Fort Fisher in late 1864.
He had been executive officer on the CSS Tennessee and captured earlier in 1864.
The only other information I found on him is that he is buried in Barranquilla, Colombia, in South America. CSNavy.com is looking for a picture of his grave. They mentioned that he served on the CSS Ivy, CSS Selma and CSS Tennessee, was at battery Buchanan, the James River Squadron and the disaster at Sailor's Creek, April 6, 1865 which prompted Lee to surrender a few days later.
You also have to wonder why he was buried in Colombia.
I saw that there was a Bradford in command of the Mississippi Battery of Coit's Battalion. Perhaps that was him.
Never Heard of Him Before. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
