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I sure appreciate you fellas. Glad you're interested in history and you're doing this. George you've turned up a lot in 5 hours.

Not surprised there's conflicting information in my data. It's mostly assumptions and wild guesses based on cobwebs of facts. There was at least one Richard Bridges, born, lived and died in Yazoo MS, but I don't know how many more.

One of them enlisted in Wood's Regiment, Co K. If the card numbers will help as an identifier, 47222669.

The data you found seems contradictory too. I can't believe there were two more Richard Bridges enlisting in Yazoo County on the same day in 1861, by a Gen. Griffith and a Captain Griffith, and one enlisted in the Yazoo Minute Rifles, and the other into the 46th MS Inf.

I've spent more than 12 years trying to get some straight facts about my G-G-Grand dad. None of them have come easily. Thank you for looking that up for me, George.

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