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Confederate (CSV)

Private

George D. Bridges

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 1st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 18, from Johnston County, he enlisted as Private, Company C, First North Carolina Infantry on 15 July 1862 in Wake County.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was on detail to a hospital in Goldsboro, NC from November 1863 into June 1864, then to a hospital in Lynchburg, VA as a nurse in August 1864. He was wounded (place not given) in January 1865 and back in the hospital in Goldsboro. He was captured and paroled there on 1 May 1865.

References & notes

His service from the Roster.1

Birth

c. 1844

Notes

1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 26278]

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