Bailey Family Papers 1841-1870

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Bailey Family Papers 1841-1870

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/pkyonge/bailey.htm

Civil War correspondence written by Casermo Bailey, and miscellaneous correspondence and business papers by Bailey family members, including James Bailey and Mary Bailey.

1.5 Linear feet; 2 boxes; 3 ledgers

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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Confederate States of America. Army. Florida Infantry Regiment, 7th

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Casermo O. Bailey was born in 1842 to the prominent Bailey family of Gainesville. Cosmo, as he was most commonly called, was the eldest son of James B. Bailey and Mary E. Bailey. In 1863, at the age of 20, Cosmo enlisted in the Alachua Rebels, Company D, Seventh Florida Infantry Regiment to fight for the Confederacy. The Seventh Florida Infantry (formed at Gainesville in April 1862) was commanded by ex-Florida governor Madison Starke Perry and later by Robert Bullock. Fo...