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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henry P. Bridges

(c. 1843 - 1864)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, he enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the thigh in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was absent on wounded furlough to about January 1863. From about April 1863 to February 1864 he was detailed to the Ambulance Corps. He was killed at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1843

Death

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29633]

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