David Bailey

A married 21 year old farmer at Wetumpka, AL, he enlisted at Montgomery, AL on 19 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action and captured on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware until 2 October when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by October 6 and was returned to duty, formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was captured again at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863 and once more a prisoner at Fort Delaware by 12 July.

He joined the United States Navy from prison, and was mustered on 16 March 1864 as a Landsman, USN at Fort Delaware (along with about 20 other apparently ex-Confederates) and assigned by 10 July 1864 to USS Saugus, a single-turret monitor which served on the James River near Richmond, VA.

He was paroled at Montgomery, AL on 20 May 1865.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 also as David Baily. His USN details from the US Naval Enlistment Weekly Return for Fort Delaware for the week ending 19 March 1864 and the Rendezvous Reports Index.

c. 1840 in GA