Enlisted on August 4 1863 at Princeton, WV as Private in the 60th Virginia Infantry, Company H. POW on September 22, 1864 at Fisher's Hill, Virginia. Confined on September 26, 1864 to Point Lookout, Maryland. Died of dysentery as a POW.

This is from 'Tears on the Bluestone', A Civil War Portrait of

Mercer County, Virginia, Now West Virginia - by Arnold H. Hurd III, copyright 2007.


BAILEY, Jonathan Simms-, Company D, listed as Jonathan S. Bailey, enlisted on 8/21/1861 at Princeton [West] Virginia-1860 MCC, age 38, farmer, married to Julia, age 39. Listed on the 1860 Mercer County Slave Schedule as the owner of 4 slaves. Son of George C. Bailey and Frances Thompson Bailey. Married to Ursula Julia Walker. Enlisted in 2nd Company H, 60th Virginia Infantry at Princeton, [West] Virginia on 8/4/1863. POW at Point Lookout, Maryland. Died on 11/7/1864, from dysentery. According to Scott in "60th Virginia Infantry" he is buried in Greenlawn Cemetery, grave # 633. According to the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs,Bailey is buried in Section 1, Site 1, of Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery in St. Mary's County, Maryland. (See ,http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1>11/31/2006) Note- more than 3,300 are buried in a common grave at Point Lookout. These soldiers were originally buried in two cemeteries located near the prison. In 1870, the State of Maryland moved the graves a mile inland to a common grave mound. Individual graves were not possible, due to a fire that destroyed the wooden headboards. * His son, Uriah A. Bailey, served in the 11th Battalion Virginia Reserves, and later, in the 60th Virginia Infantry. See - roster of Mercer Camp, United Confederate Veterans. Brother of Thompson Bailey.