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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Edmund I. Bailey

(c. 1827 - ?)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 34 year old mechanic at Camden, AL, he enlisted at Bridgeport, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA from 14 October to 27 November 1862. He was captured at Gettysburg, PA on 1 July 1863, briefly at Fort McHenry, MD, then held at Fort Delaware. He was exchanged on 18 September 1864, admitted to a hospital in Richmond on 22 September, and sent to Camp Winder near Richmond on 18 October with no later military record.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives,2 also as Edmund J Bailey.

Birth

c. 1827 in MS

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32324]

2 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 32325]

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