Vermont in the Civil War
10th Infantry HISTORY

Vermont in the Civil War
10th Infantry ROSTER

Co. B, 10th Reg, Vermont Volunteers

The youngest of the Bradley brothers, Henry M., enlisted on July 30, 1862 as a private in Company B, 10th Regiment of the Vermont Volunteers. He received a twenty-five dollar "bounty" plus a two-dollar "premium." Henry was twenty-one, half an inch short of five and a half feet tall, light complected, blue eyed, and had brown hair. Since 1857 he had been working in James G. French's clothing store, Montpelier.

Company B was organized in Waterbury in early August, 1862 before the Regiment went into camp at Brattleboro, Vermont on the 15th and was mustered into service on September 1st with 1,016 officers and men. On September 6, in eighteen passenger cars, most men overloaded with personal impedimenta, books, stationery, brushes, patent medicines, etc., they traveled to New Haven, then by Steamboat "Continental" to New York. The troops moved by ship to Perth Amboy, N. J., and by rail to Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., arriving on September 8th.

From Eber Bradley (1761-1841)and Some Relatives, page 62

The Vermont in the Civil War website provides the following brief:

Bradley, Henry M., Montpelier, VT, 21, Private, Co. B, enl 7/30/62, m/i 9/1/62, m/o 3/5/63