 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Pakutanga kweHondo Yenyika Yose, Brady akanyoresa somunhu oga mu12th Pennsylvania Infantry. Musi waJuly 8, 1861 akagamuchira basa somutungamiri wekutanga muRegular Armys 14th Infantry Regiment. Akashanda mupurogiramu iyi muhondo yose, achibatanidzwa muhondo dzeGaines Mill, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, Chacellorsville, Gettysburg, Wilderness, Laurel HillPetersburg, uye Weldon Railroad. Muhondo yokupedzisira, akabatwa musungwa ndokuchengetwa paLibby Prison asati aburitswa muna September 1864. Brady akagamuchira kukwidziridzwa kukaputeni musi waChikumi 10, 1864, uye akagamuchira patent semukuru nekuda kwekushinga kwake paWeldon Railroad musi waNyamavhuvhu 18, 1864. Musi waMarch 16, 1865 akasimudzirwa kuva lieutenant colonel nokuda kwebasa rake rakaisvonaka munguva yehondo. 