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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Russell Bridges

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Going by Russell, in 1860 he was a 23 year old living on the Robert W Little farm at Rockport in Simpson County, MS. He mustered as Private, Company B, 16th Mississippi Infantry, on 20 July 1861 in Corinth, MS.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Confederate Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His death also seen in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

1838; Simpson County, MS

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

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 29591]

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