CAPTAIN L. D. BRADLEY
    (1831-1886)
   
  CAME TO TEXAS FROM ALABAMA IN 
1855. IN CIVIL WAR COMMANDED CO.
E, 2ND BATTALION, WAUL'S TEXAS 
LEGION.  ON MAY 22, 1863 WAS A 
LEADER IN ONE OF MOST DARING 
DEFENSIVE ACTIONS IN THE SEIGE 
OF VICKSBURG.  VOLUNTEERED ALONG 
WITH 20 OF HIS OWN MEN AND 18 
OTHERS TO SEAL OFF A FEDERAL 
PENETRATION INTO THE CONFEDER-
ATE FORT DEFENDING THE MISSIS-
SIPPI RIVER.  ACTED UNDER FIRE.
  LATER COMMANDED A REGIMENT IN
DEFENSE OF TEXAS COAST AND IN 
1864 RED RIVER CAMPAIGN TO PRE-
VENT FEDERAL INVASION OF TEXAS.
  PROMINENT CITIZEN AND LAWYER, 
TEXAS LEGISLATOR, DISTRICT JUDGE.
                        (1964)