Charles married 1st Dortha Ann Burris Feb. 10, 1864 in Boone Co., Indiana.

He married 2nd Amanda Johnson Jan. 29, 1907 also in Boone County. Her parents were William and Martha (Cathorn) Johnson. Amanda was born in Jennings Co., Indiana abt 1840. This was the 2nd marriage for Charles and Amanda and she had two children by her first marriage.
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A Portrait and Biographical Record of Boone, Clinton and Hendricks Counties, Ind.,
A.W. Bowen, Chicago, 1895, page 230:

CHARLES A. BRATTON is one of the Boone county veterans of the civil war and a respected farmer of Jefferson township. He descends from an old colonial Virginia family. His grandfather, Lewis Bratton, was a soldier in the war of the Revolution and died in Virginia.

John Bratton, a son of Lewis Bratton and father of our subject, was born in Bath county, Virginia, and married there Polly Berry, and a large family of eleven children resulted from this union, all of whom are now living except two They are as follows — James, Becky E., John, Margaret, Robert, Nancy J., Mary, Adaline, William, Charles A. and Samuel, all born in Virginia except Samuel, who was born in Indiana, Montgomery county, where the family moved in the fall of 1839, when our subject was but an infant of six months. Here Mr. Bratton cleared up a good farm and passed all the remainder of his days, reaching the age of seventy-two years, and died in February, 1866. He was a member of the Presbyterian church, and an old-time whig in politics until the formation of the republican party, after which he was an adherent to that party. He was a substantial farmer, respected by all. He had two sons in the Civil war — Charles and Samuel — both in the same company and regiment. Samuel was in Missouri and forced to join the Confederate army, but deserted at the battle of Pea Ridge and joined the Union troops, serving until the close of the war, and was in several battles.

Charles A. Bratton, our subject, was born in Bath county, Virginia, February 4, 1939, and was brought to Indiana when six months of age. He received a common education and was reared a farmer. At the age of twenty-one he enlisted, September 1, 1861, at Lafayette, Ind., in company B, Tenth regiment Indiana volunteer infantry, for three years or during the war, and was honorably discharged at Evansville, Ind., in July, 1862. He was in the battle of Mill Spring and was struck by a spent ball but not injured. He was on several hard marches to get to the battle of Shiloh, his company and regiment marching three days and nights without rest, and arrived one-half day too late for the battle. Mr. Bratton suffered greatly from exposure and fatigue and was taken sick with rheumatism and chronic diarrhoea in March, 1862. He was taken to a hospital at Evansville, but was found to be in such a bad condition that he was immediately sent home. He had previously been sick in camp four weeks. He did not recover sufficiently to work for two years.

His wife, Dorothy A., to whom he was married in 1864, is the daughter of Thomas and Ann (Hill) Burris. Mr. Burris was an old settler and pioneer of Boone county. He made a good home and reared eight children: Albert, Catherine, Mary, Alice and Dorothy, John, Robert and Wesley. Mr. Burris lived to be about seventy-five years of age. In political opinions he was a republican and had three sons in the Civil war — John, Robert and Wesley — all in an Indiana regiment. Robert and Wesley were in several battles. Mr. Burris was a respected member of the Presbyterian church.

After marriage Mr. Bratton and wife settled down to farm life in Boone county and bought his present farm of forty acres of good land, and their family fireside was made complete by the birth of six children — Martin S., Nora M. , Alonzo, Glen, Homer and Ella. Mr. Bratton is as steadfast in his political principles now, as when, in his youth, he offered himself to his country in her time of need and cheerfully and bravely faced rebel bullets, and uncomplainingly endured the hardships and exposure of army life, and votes the straight republican ticket. Mr. Bratton receives a pension of seventeen dollars per month. He and wife are members of the Presbyterian church. Mr. Bratton's constitution was badly shattered by exposure, especially in the hard march to the field of Shiloh, and since the war has been much enfeebled. He stands deservedly high among his neighbors and friends as a good citizen and an honest man.