What position did Bridges assume following his congressional term?
President
Union Army lieutenant-colonel
Senator
Mayoral
Answer
Bridges resigned from Congress on January 31, 1863 to serve as a lieutenant-colonel in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was wounded at the Battle of Chancellorsville and at the Battle of Gettysburg, and mustered out of the service in September 1865.
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