Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Bridges' Battery Illinois Light Artillery o se vaega o fana mai Ilinoi na tautua i le Union Army i le taimi o le American Civil War. Faʻatulagaina i le 17 Iuni 1861 o le Kamupani G, 19th Illinois Infantry Regiment, na vavaeʻeseina o se tutoatasi fanafana maa i le 14 Ianuari 1863. Na tau le vaega a le vaega lea i le taua i Tullahoma, i le taua i Chickamauga ma le taua i Missionary Ridge, ma le taua i Knoxville i le 1863. Na auai le vaega a Bridges i le taua i Atlanta i le 1864, ma tau ai i Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca, Adairsville, Pickett's Mill, Kennesaw Mountain, Peachtree Creek,
Atlanta, ma Jonesboro. O le iunite na tau i Franklin ma Nashville i se taimi puupuu ae leʻi toe faaigoaina o le Battery "B", 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment i le aso 21 Tesema 1864. Na faaaluina ai le vaega o totoe o le taua ma le vaega o fitafita a Nashville ma na toe faafoʻisia mai ia Iulai 1865.