Letter from Joseph Bailey to Orrin Heedham, 1861 August 11.

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Letter from Joseph Bailey to Orrin Heedham, 1861 August 11.

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Letter written by Joseph Bailey, Captain of Company D, 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Regiment to Orrin Heedham of Adams County on the death of his son, John H. Heedham.

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United States. Army. Wisconsin Infantry Regiment, 4th (1861-1863). Company D.

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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...