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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James M. Bridges

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 17th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted as Private, Company C, 17th Mississippi Infantry, date not known.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the lungs in action on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry, VA on 13 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records via the Historical Data Systems database. His wounding from a list of Harpers Ferry casualties in a 24 September 1862 letter by Pvt. Solon L. Whittington, Company B, published in the Memphis Daily Appeal on 13 October 1862 [online from Jeff T. Giambrone].