• 5' 6.00"
• grey eyes
• black hair
• dark skin

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Florida Confederate Pension Application File A02063   
Hamilton County, FL, 1907. 18 pages.

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• johnl.  Ordnance Sergeant James Polhill Bracewell, Staff, 8th Florida Infantry is of unknown relation to  johnl . johnl writes: "I'm unsure about this! My mother, was the daughter of Everett Bracewell, Florence K. Yonn. Everett Bracewell's mother and father were Amanda Bracewell, Josephus Bracewell who are buried in Mitchum Cemetery which is near Bristol,Florida. Not sure if Josephus is a descendant of James. "
• James Bracewell (Jennings, FL).  Ordnance Sergeant James Polhill Bracewell, Staff, 8th Florida Infantry is James's great grandfather. James writes: "My great grandfather, for whom I was named, is buried approximately 15 miles from my home in Hamilton County. Every time I see his grave marker, I am reminded of the first time I saw it at age twelve. The only difference in my name and that on the tombstone was that his was preceded by Doctor. When he traveled from Quincy to Pensacola, with a couple of his friends, to join the regiment being formed there, he neglected to inform the authorities that he was a dentist. He did not wish to be assigned to the medical corps, and separated from his friends. Oddly, the trip from Quincy to Pensacola was by way of Columbus, Georgia. He did not write about how he got to Columbus, but wrote some about the trip down the Chattahoochee River. He was aboard a military barge that apparently traveled only in the daytime. When they tied up at night, the men on board took turns standing guard duty ... their only weapon was a Bowie knife! He thought that was quite comical. After a set-back with illness that sent him back home to Quincy, he recovered and rejoined the regiment in Virginia. He was shot through the chest at the Battle of Fredericksburg, and also was a victim pneumonia. He made his was back home to, once again, be nursed back to health by his mother. He re-joined the regiment again, just in time to be captured and imprisoned at Fort Monroe. He had developed a chronic cough (probably from the gunshot through the lung, coupled with the pneumonia), and could not practice dentistry after his release from prison. Folks were cautious about anyone who coughed, because of the fear of “consumption.â€� For the remainder of his working life, he owned a small country store in Bellville. I remember seeing the remains of the structure as late as the mid-fifties. Most of this information was gleaned from the memoirs he wrote in 1900. I have the original, written in pencil. It has become quite fragile and faded. I also have letters he wrote to his mother in 1864 and 1865. I have one picture of him, taken in the early 1900’s, as an elderly man with a white beard. Our branch of the Bracewell family has had men in military service in every generation since the American Revolution. My late father served in WWII, I am a retired Army Officer, and my son is nearing retirement as an Air Force officer. Thank you for this great website. I learned a little more about my great grandfather from it. Regards, James Polhill Bracewell II."
• Walter Bracewell.  Ordnance Sergeant James Polhill Bracewell, Staff, 8th Florida Infantry is Walter's great-great-grandfather.

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