Yesterday I called the Hermitage and am now supposed to have permission to go to the cemetery. I talked with a lady high up who I met some 15 years ago or so and said that they are not supposed to restrict access for those visiting the Tennessee Confederate Soldiers Home Cemetery.
As to Benjamin F. Bradley, who is supposed to have served in Company A, Seventh Kentucky Infantry, CSA, I cannot locate him anywhere in my records of the Seventh Kentucky Infantry, CSA. For that matter I cannot locate him on the 1860 Census from the area at any military age or at any time thereafter if he was a post-war death. Neither can I locate him in any other unit from the area of Kentucky west of the Tennessee River known as the Jackson Purchase. Company A of the Seventh was made up from the area along the Kentucky/Tennessee state line from southwestern Graves County across southern Hickman County and in to eastern Fulton County, Kentucky.