Bailey, Chesley D., b.1836 1863-1864 Diary.

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Bailey, Chesley D., b.1836 1863-1864 Diary.

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Diary of Lt. Col. Chesley D. Bailey of the 9th Kentucky Infantry during the Civil War. The diary begins in Nov. 1863 but Bailey begins to keep it more faithfully in Feb. 1864 with few gaps before he is wounded during the battle for Atlanta. In the back he has noted various expenditures, where and when he was stationed, and items such as cartridges being used. Bailey describes the skirmishes and battles of the 9th Kentucky in Tennessee and Georgia.

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