Title: William Terrill Bradby
William Terrill Bradby, dressed traditionally and holding a club, October 1899
William Terrill Bradby (Pamunkey, 1833– ?) and other men from Virginia’s Pamunkey and Mattaponi Nations served as river pilots, land guides, and spies for the Union army during the 1862 Peninsular Campaign. They piloted steamers, tugboats, gunboats, and torpedo boats during the remainder of the Civil War.
Photo by De Lancey W. Gill.
National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution [NAA INV 06197600]
Credit: National Archives and Records Administration
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