To hush dissension and pale hate rebuke.
—Joseph Smith.
A BRIEF SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF COLONEL JAMES D. BRADY.
(Through the courtesy of Joseph P. Brady, his son, Clerk of the U. S. Circuit Court of the Eastern District of Virginia.)
Colonel James D. Brady was born at Portsmouth, Virginia, April 3, 1843, and died at Petersburg, Virginia, November 30, 1900.
The death of his father in 1855, his mother having died during his infancy, made it necessary for him to leave his home in Virginia when a boy of eleven years of age, and go to New York City to live with a kinsman, and he was residing in that city at the time the Civil War broke out.
He enlisted March 9, 1861, as a private in Company A, 37th New York, “Irish Rifles.” On December 7, 1861, he was transferred to the 63d New York Volunteer Infantry, Meagher’s Irish Brigade, and commissioned its first lieutenant. Very shortly thereafter he was made the adjutant of the regiment. He was for gallant and efficient conduct successively promoted to Captain, Major, Lieutenant-Colonel and Colonel of the regiment, and as such last named officer was honorably mustered out of service May 26, 1865, claiming to be the youngest colonel in the Army of the Potomac.
COL. JAMES D. BRADY.
One of the founders of the Society and the father of Hon. Joseph P. Brady of Richmond, Va. Col. Brady deceased in 1900, honored and respected by all who knew him.
Colonel Brady was at different times Judge Advocate, Adjutant-General and Inspector General of the First Division of the 2nd Army Corps.