NEWS: GAMBLE BRADLEY MEMOIRS, CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY, NEW YORK Copyright (c) 2002 by Karen Stewart (kstewart@fdn.com) ************************************************************************ USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submittor has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ************************************************************************ OTHER CLIPPINGS FOUND IN THE 1936 DIARY OF MRS. ALICE M. ARTHUR GAMBLE BRADLEY IS IN 95TH YEAR: RECALLS INCIDENT OF HIS HOMEWARD JOURNEY AFTER THE CIVIL WAR JUNE 29, 1936. Gamble Bradley, now in his 95th year, has been confined to his bed for the past four weeks. Weakness is the principal cause. His mind is clear, and he still will enjoy talks with any who may call. He recently recalled for a visitor his return from the Civil War in 1865, his right arm septic and sore from a bullet wound at Fort Fisher. One of the incidents of that homeward journey--a highlight in the sombre scene--occurred at York, Pa. There he arrived penniless. Some young ladies were selling pies to travellers there, and when they learned that he was wounded and without funds, they all offered him pies free. He gladly accepted two; and still has happy memories of the generosity of those York girls, and of how good those pies tasted. He refers to the fact that he is the only living charter member of James M. Brown Post, G.A.R. Members of the post, Woman's Relief Corps, and Sons of Veterans are some of those he would be happy to see, as well as children of his old time friends. He now resides on Langford Street. GAMBLE BRADLEY RECALLS EARLY DAYS IN CITY: NINETY-FIVE YEARS OLD TODAY, HE CONTINUES KEEN INTEREST IN NEWS OF THE WORLD. SERVED IN 112TH IN THE CIVIL WAR. EXCHANGED SALUTES WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN--VISITED BY HARRIET BEECHER STOWE WHILE IN MILITARY HOSPITAL. Today Gamble Bradley celebrates the ninety-fifth anniversary of his birth, at his residence, 1227 North Main Street. Here he resides with his daughter, Mrs. Leonora Reynolds, whose skill and fidelity have been important elements in assisting him to maintain the remarkable physical equipoise with which he hails this, his natal day. Mr. Bradley preserves unimpaired his genial zest for world news and the eddy and swirl of vital life about him. During the past Winter weakness kept him much in bed, but to the surprise and joy of his friends he conquered that enemy and resumed his normal, self-helping life in the family circle. He walks about, goes riding, and entertains friends as usual. Last Winter he tripped and fell backward into a bath-tub, his neck snapping back over the rear rim. This seemed to injure him not at all. He recalls the Jamestown of 1845 as seen by a boy of four. High-spots in his memory are the occasion when Abraham Lincoln exchanged salutes with him as he stepped out of his company ranks; and the gentle hand of Harriet Beecher Stowe upon his forehead as he lay in the military hospital after the charge on Fort Fisher. He sees again the busy whirl of machinery in the making of wooden tubs and pails at the Winsor Street dam in the late '40s, when he played about the factory; the flat-boat stocks close-by; and Nathan Brown, busy with preparations for the conquest of southern markets when, on the March "rise" of water his armada of flat-boats laden with Jamestown products descended upon them. Mr. Bradley, who served in Company F, 112th New York Volunteer Infantry, in the Civil War, is the only surviving charter member of James M. Brown Post, Grand Army of the Republic. There are eight other members of the post who joined after the local unit of the G.A.R. was formed. This afternoon and evening Mr. Bradley and daughter, Mrs. Reynolds, will be at home to friends.