You can find some info on Robert T. Bridges on Fold3, the American Civil War database, and a little on Ancestry.com. Fold3 has at least 170 pages on him. He was tried for murdering a man named James Rhodes, supposedlyhe deserted his regiment in 1864, went back home, got in a bar room fight and killed James Rhodes. I don't know if Rhodes was also a soldier, but there was mention in the amazing saga of Bridges time at large, that said he was waging a guerrilla war between Ringgold and Dalton. At one point in his at large wanderings, he supposedly was running a tavern in Nashville. When he was found guilty and sentenced to be hung, someone pled his case and Abraham Lincoln gave him a reprieve. When Lincoln was killed, that was changed and they sent out letters to every General to arrest him and hang him. I never found out if the did or not, but his case was in Lincoln's papers as well as General Grants. What I couldn't figure out was why they were after him with such presistance. He was a Confederate Soldier who killed another citizen of Georgia. Thousands of men were dying in battle on both sides, so what made the murder of James Rhodes by Robert T. Bridges so important?