Cumberland County, Maine - Colonel Albert Williams Bradbury
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Biography
Colonel Albert William Bradbury
Biographical Review
Cumberland County, Maine
Boston
Biographical Review Publishing Company
1896
Page 425-426


Colonel Albert Williams Bradbury, son of Bion and Alice (Williams) Bradbury, was
born in Calais, Me., in 1840, and had barely reached his majority when he
entered on the military career which he completed with so much honor, winning
the title which he now bears. His early youth was passed in East port, and,
having fitted for college at the University Grammar School of Providence, R.I.,
he was graduated from Bowdoin in 1860. In 1861 he began to recruit for the First
Maine Battery of Mounted Artillery, and was mustered in as Second Lieutenant in
December of that year, subsequently passing the grades of First Lieutenant,
Captain, Major of First Maine Mounted Artillery, and Brevet Lieutenant Colonel
of volunteers. He was in active service during the entire war, serving first in
General Butler's Department of the Gulf, under the immediate command of General
Godfrey Weitzel, and subsequently in the Nineteenth Army Corps, first under
command of General William B. Franklin, later of General Emory.

At the approaching expiration of his three years' term of enlistment, during
which he was constantly in the field, he re-enlisted his entire command. In the
winter of 1864 he went to Augusta to recruit, and, after a stay of thirty days,
was ordered to join Burnside, who sent him to an artillery camp near Washington
for guns and horses. He was afterward placed in command of Fort Lincoln with a
battalion of one-hundred-days' men. Colonel Bradbury was next placed in command
of Forts C. F. Smith and Strong on the southern side of the Potomac, with two
battalions of one hundred-days' men, reporting to General DeRussey. On July 4,
1864, he was ordered from Arlington Heights to Washington, and then to Fort
Stevens, where Jubal Early was making his demonstrations against Washington, and
had command of a long line of fortifications. Soon after this General Emory of
the Nineteenth Army Corps came up from the Department of the Gulf, and made
application for Colonel Bradbury to be ordered to his command. The Colonel was
in Sheridan's army in the valley of the Shenandoah, and participated in all the
battles of that brilliant and successful campaign. He was Chief of Artillery of
the Nineteenth Army Corps, and was later appointed, in general orders by General
Sheridan, Chief of Artillery of the Army of the Shenandoah.

Colonel Bradbury's brilliant military career closed July 24, 1865, when he was
mustered out of service; and he immediately entered on the work of the
profession in which he has since distinguished himself, reading law in the
office of his father. He was admitted to the bar in 1867, and became associated
with his father, under the firm name of Bradbury & Bradbury. This firm conducted
an extensive business in the State and Federals courts till the death of the
senior member in the summer of 1887. Subsequently Colonel Bradbury was City
Solicitor, and later he was a member of the firm of Bradbury & McQuillan.  He is
now the United States District Attorney, appointed by President Cleveland. He is
a man of rare mental capacity and great executive powers, a leader in whatever
sphere of action may claim him. Politically, he is a member of the Democratic
party, taking an active interest in State and national affairs; and he has
delivered addresses on many important political occasions in Maine and in other
States.