The 10th Arkansas was still at Corinth on April 30, 1862. The town was quietly abandoned by the Confederates on the night of May 29-30, 1862, upon the approach of Union forces under General Halleck. The 10th Arkansas and its sister regiments moved south through various camps until it arrived at Camp Priceville, near Tupelo, where it spent the month of July 1862.

J. M. Bradford is not listed on the Shiloh casualty roster. He more than likely was sick with (and subsequently died from) one of the diseases that ravaged the Confederate army in the early years of the war. Southerners were usually from rural areas and had little previous exposure to disease; consequently had no opportunity to build a resistance to disease. When exposed to disease in crowded and unsanitary army camps, they dropped like flies. The worst case I know about (among Arkansas troops) was the 18th Arkansas Infantry, which was decimated by measles, beginning in late March 1862. Within six months, the regiment dropped from over 1,000 men to less than 400.