Bruce Menger

He enrolled on 22 May 1861 at Camp Moore, Tangipahoa, LA and was commissioned Captain of Company I, 5th Louisiana Infantry on 4 June. He was promoted to Major on 31 July 1862.

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel on 3 January 1863 and was wounded again, at Fredericksburg, VA, on 4 May 1863, and was absent recovering into August. He was absent sick in Richmond, VA from January to March 1864 and was killed in action at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864:

Gen. Ewell resolved to abandon the salient angle, the loss & recapture of which had cost him so dearly; so, soon after dark, he withdrew his troops to the main line fortifications, thereby shortening & strengthening his line. Our Division had been so badly shattered that it was withdrawn from the front & placed in reserve for the purpose of reorganization. In this battle we lost one of the best field officers in our Brigade, Lt. Col. Bruce Menger, Comdg. the 5th La. Regt.

His service from Booth1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. The quote above from the Terry L Jones' (ed.) Civil War Memoirs of Captain William J. Seymour (1991). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

05/12/1864; Spotsylvania Court House, VA; burial in Spotsylvania Confederate Cemetery, Spotsylvania, VA