Bright D. Byrd | Our Civil War Family

What is documented

Bright D. Byrd is documented as a soldier in Company A, 50th North Carolina Infantry. A military hospital record places him in Wilmington, North Carolina with febris typhoides (typhoid fever). A hospital effects receipt further connects the soldier to the Byrd family because his mother claimed his effects after his death.

Service and death

Military service

Company A, 50th North Carolina Infantry.

Wilmington, North Carolina

Hospital documentation records Bright as a patient suffering from typhoid fever in the Wilmington military hospital system.

March 1864

Bright died while hospitalized. The exact date is currently preserved as a conflict rather than silently resolved.

OPEN RECORD CONFLICT — death date

Three sources currently give March 15, March 25, and March 26, 1864. Until the underlying records are compared directly, the family history should say only that Bright died in March 1864, with the competing dates shown here.

What this proves

Confirmed: Bright's military unit, hospitalization in Wilmington, typhoid diagnosis, wartime death, and the family connection established by the effects receipt. His exact death date and burial location remain research questions.

Gettysburg connection

No personal Gettysburg connection is claimed. This project follows Bright's documented service and hospital record rather than assigning him battles from general regimental history.