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Captain W.W. Bradshaw: Adair Civil War Veteran A 150th Anniversary of Civil War Story William W. Bradshaw, Captain of Company D, 5th KY Cavalry, enrolled inservice on 4 October 1861 at Burkesville, Cumberland County, age 24.He provided or purchased his own horse and equipment and much of thelatter part of 1862 he spent on recruiting service by order of Gen.Rosecrans. He was absent sick periodically during 1863 and resignedhis commission as of 15 October 1863 at Winchester, TN. He was born 14June 1837, died 27 November 1912, buried Columbia City Cemetery. Onhis grave marker is: "Miss. AM SS Union" which represents "Missionaryof the American Sunday School Union. -MIKE WATSON Captain Bradshaw is one of the many soldiers of the Civil War fromAdair County on whom I have collected information in preparation forthis 150th Civil War Anniversary era, 2011-2015. Anyone withadditional data on this or other Civil War veterans with Adair Countyconnections are urged to contact me or the Adair Public Library, 307 Greensburg Street, Columbia, KY. By Mike Watson, Adair County Historian Submitted in the interest of the Civil War 150th Anniversary From The Columbia Spectator, Columbia, Adair County, Kentucky,Thursday, March 4, 1897. The Good He Accomplished in Sunday School Work in Kentucky Of the many worthy and influential men spoken of in todays issue ofThe Spectator, none are more deserving of the success which has cometo them than Capt. W.W. Bradshaw. He was born on a farm in thesouthern portion of Adair County where he worked and attended theneighborhood schools until eighteen years of age, when he came toColumbia and entered the High School where for more than three yearshe employed his time well and made rapid progress in his studies. Atthe age of 22, he left school on account of ill health and after arest and recuperation began teaching. He was thus engaged in thecounties of Adair and Cumberland until the war of 1861 broke out, whenhe allied himself with the Union and enlisted with Company D, FifthKentucky Cavalry and was made Captain. For three years he followed theflag of this country and made a brave fearless officer, shirking noduty and rendering to his country splendid service. At the expirationof this time, his health again became wretched and he was forced toresign his commission. He returned to his home in Adair, but beingpossessed of a disposition to accomplish something by making the mostof life, he could not long content himself in idleness and when healthhas been partially regained, he again took up the avocation ofteaching, and from 1863 to 1882 he was regarded as one of the foremosteducators in this section of Kentucky. In the early part of the latternamed year, upon the advice of a physician, he abandoned a flourishingschool at Monticello and returned to Columbia. Shortly after, the American Sunday School Union tendered him theposition of Evangelist for Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia and heentered actively in the work. During the past fifteen years he hasaccomplished an incalculable amount of good in this noble cause andhas established a reputation as a Sunday School worker of which anyman could feel justly proud. To a Spectator reporter who engaged himin conversation on the subject recently, he said: "I have organized,mostly in the mountain section of Kentucky, 731 Sunday Schools, theseschools employ 5,948 teachers and 31,282 pupils are enrolled." Capt. Bradshaw is prominently identified with the business interestsof Columbia. He is a part owner of the Columbia Mill and a director ofsame; a stockholder of the Columbia Bank, and interested in theundertaking business. As a business man he is regarded as one of thebest, and being possessed of the strictest order of integrity, enjoysthe confidence of a host of warm friends. In every enterprise tendingtoward the development of his home town and county. Capt. Bradshaw hastaken an active part and Columbia owes much to the generosity andenterprise of this most worthy man. Being a scholarly refined anduniversally polite gentleman, his citizenship is highly prized and noman stands higher with his home people. In 1865 he was united in marriage with Miss Sarah Williams, daughterof Mr. David Williams of Cumberland County. He resides in a handsomehome on Burkesville Street. Compiled by Mike Watson This story was posted on 2012-02-28 07:57:37
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