This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/gAC.2ACE/2732.1.1.1 Message Board Post: You may have all this, but I do see an Augustus in the NPS's Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System: Augustus Bridges Regiment Name Capt. Thrall's Battery, Arkansas L. Art'y. Side Confederate Company Soldier's Rank_In Private Soldier's Rank_Out Private Film Number M376 roll 3 Have you been able to check for possible pension records with the Confederate state he lived in, in this case I guess Arkansas? You might also try to locate a site or history of his unit. It was also known as the Jackson Light Artillery, formed in Jackson Co. See http://www.couchgenweb.com/civilwar/jackson.html which lists Augustus as follows: Bridges, Augustus—Private; enlisted at Jacksonport, June 15, 1861. By his age in 1850, your Augustus would have been 54 when the war began??? An Augustus Bridges is also mentioned at the following site re early members of a Bradley Co. AR church: http://www.rootsweb.com/~arclevel/enon_missionary_baptist_church.htm Good luck!