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Guilford Dudley Bailey
(June 4
[1]
or September 24,
[2]
1834 ? May 31, 1862) was an
Union Army
officer during the
American Civil War
.
Biography
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Guilford Dudley Bailey was born in 1834 in
Martinsburg, New York
.
He graduated from the
United States Military Academy
at
West Point
in 1856, and was assigned to the
2nd U.S. Artillery Regiment
. He served on frontier and garrison duty, was at
Fort Leavenworth
during the
Kansas disturbances
of 1857-59, and at West Point as instructor for a short time in 1859. When the Civil War began he was stationed at
Fort Brown, Texas
. There his immediate superior, Capt.
George Stoneman
, refused to surrender when Gen.
David E. Twiggs
attempted to give up his entire command to the
Confederates
, thus effecting Bailey's escape via
Mexico
. Reporting for duty as soon as he could reach Union territory, he was sent with
Henry J. Hunt's
battery to the relief of
Fort Pickens
in Florida. Returning on account of sickness, he organized and was appointed Colonel of the 1st New York Light Artillery Regiment on 25 September, 1861. He joined the
Army of the Potomac
and became Chief of Artillery for
Silas Casey
's division in the
IV Corps
during the
Peninsula campaign
. Bailey was killed among his guns at the
Battle of Seven Pines
on May 31, 1862. A monument has been raised to his memory in the cemetery at
Poughkeepsie
.
References
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the
public domain
:
Wilson, J. G.
;
Fiske, J.
, eds. (1891). "BAILEY, Guilford Dudley".
Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
. New York: D. Appleton.
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