Joseph Bailey letters, 1862-1866.

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Joseph Bailey letters, 1862-1866.

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A letter from Colonel Bailey of the 4th Wisconsin Cavalry, dated from the Engineers Brigade headquarters at Vicksburg, Mississippi, to Wisconsin Governor James T. Lewis, on the subject of Wisconsin soldiers.

0.1 c.f. (1 folder); plusadditions of 0.1 c.f. and8 photographs

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6923351

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 29th (1862-1865)

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United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1862-1865)

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Bailey, Joseph, 1825-1867

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Bailey was born near the town of Pennsville in Morgan County, Ohio. He earned a civil engineering degree at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, then moved to Wisconsin and became a civil engineer and lumberman. After successfully building a log dam on the Wisconsin River for use by lumber raftsmen, he and his wife, Mary, purchased several tracts of land in Kilbourn, Wisconsin (now Wisconsin Dells). He built a home in town with acreage that stretched northward up River Road which incl...