Spratley attended the College of William and Mary after leaving Randolph-Macon. He enlisted as a private in Co. K of the 21st VA Infantry on May 4, 1861. He enlisted on February 22, 1862 as a private in Co. I of the 12th VA Infantry. He was discharged on July 22, 1862 when he furnished a substitute, John L. Jean, who was taken prisoner in 1864 and sent to the POW camp at Point Lookout, MD. Spratley was appointed CSA postmaster for the Greensville County, VA community of Pleasant Shade on July 14, 1863.
After the war, he remained in Greensville County where he was a farmer in 1870. He declared bankruptcy in December 1871, and was a laborer in 1880, a farmer in 1900, and a laborer in 1910.
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