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MILITARY SERVICE
Age: 21, credited to Hardwick, VT
Unit(s): 2nd VT INF
Service: enl 5/7/61, m/i 6/20/61, SGT, Co. F, 2nd VT INF, pr 1SGT, comn 2LT, 10/1/62 (10/13/62), wdd, Wilderness, 5/5/64, m/o 6/29/64
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VITALS
Birth: 02/21/1840, Hardwick, VT
Death: 09/11/1917
Burial: Main Street Cemetery, Hardwick, VT
Marker/Plot: Not recorded
Gravestone researcher/photographer: Deanna French
Findagrave Memorial #: 0
(There may be a Findagrave Memorial, but we have not recorded it)
MORE INFORMATION
Alias?: None noted
Pension?: Yes, 12/21/1878; widow Helen M., 9/29/1917, VT
Portrait?: Gibson Collection, VHS Collections, USAHEC off-site
College?: Not Found
Veterans Home?: Not Found
(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)
Remarks: None
DESCENDANTS
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BURIAL:
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Main Street Cemetery, Hardwick, VT
Check the cemetery for location/directions and other veterans who may be buried there.
VHS - 2nd Vermont Infantry Album (MSA595)
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VHS - 2nd Vermont Infantry Album (V2)
John Gibson Collection
Obituary
BENNINGTON BRIEFS
The death is announced of George W. Bridgeman of Hardwick, one of the trustees of the soldiers' home. Mr. Bridgeman has been many times in Bennington during recent years and had many friends here by whom he was greatly esteemed. He was 77 years old and all his life was a resident of Hardwick. He was one of the first to enlist in 1861 and served all through the war.
Source: Bennington Banner, September 19 1917.
Courtesy of Tom Boudreau.