James H. H. Bailey

In 1860 he was a 17 year old living with his parents and 3 siblings on their modest farm at Hickory Flat in Chambers County, AL. On 15 February 1862, by then married, he enlisted at Roanoke, AL and mustered as a Private in Company I, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in action on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was wounded at Spotsylvania Court House, VA on 12 May 1864, his "hand mangled by a bullet," and he was captured at Richmond, VA on 3 April 1865 and released after taking an oath of allegiance at Newport News, VA on 24 June 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Roanoke in Randolph County, AL. He moved to Ozark in Franklin County, AR about 1895. From May 1918 to at least 1920 (and probably to his death in 1923) he was a resident of the Arkansas Confederate Home near Little Rock in Pulaski County, AR.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880, 1920. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Frances J Phillips (1845-1877) in August 1861 and they had 6 children. He married again, Martha S Willingham (1839-1904), in December 1877.

06/09/1840 in GA

04/04/1923; Pulaski County, AR; burial in Rankin Cemetery, Lone Elm, AR