Beverly Carradine was born on April 4, 1848, on Altamont Plantation in Yazoo County, Mississippi.

[citation needed] In 1865, Carradine, aged 16, enlisted in Wood's Regiment in the Confederate Cavalry in Mississippi, and served until the end of the American Civil War.

[citation needed] On June 1, 1889, Carradine received the "blessing of sanctification" in his study in the parsonage at 35 Polyminca Street, New Orleans.

The New York Times reported that his early opposition as a prominent New Orleans pastor helped end the lottery in that state.

[13] Although a prolific author, Carradine wrote little about himself and his family, not even in his autobiographical Pastoral Sketches.