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Confederate (CSV)

Private

William Bridges

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 22, he enlisted on 27 April 1861 at Paulding, Jasper County, and mustered as 2nd Corporal of Company F, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 31 May 1861 in Corinth. He was appointed 4th Sergeant on 1 September 1861, but was absent, sick into December 1861 and reduced to Private on 31 December 1861.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was appointed 2nd Sergeant on 17 September 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864 and on the Weldon Railroad near Petersburg, VA on 21 August 1864. He was afterward on extended wounded furlough to Desoto, MS with no military record after December 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. 1839

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 29657]

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