James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was in Company D of the 12th Alabama Infantry CSA and was killed on 3 May 1863, at the young age of 22, in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia during the War Between the States (Civil War).
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Clarissa Elizabeth Harlow Kyser Bailey's oldest son, James Ernest, wasted no time in answering President Jefferson Davis' call for volunteers. In 1863, Clarissa watched as another son, William, 17, joined his brother James' company. That same year, James E. Bailey died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. With General Robert E. Lee calling for every able-bodied man to come and serve in the Confederate Army, in July 1863 Clarissa watched as both her husband and yet another son, John, hardly 16, signed up in the Alabama Infantry. By January 1865, Green Berry had returned to Coffee County. John and William were back home by the Fall of 1865.
Click on the link below to see the memorial page for the actual burial site:
Actual burial here
James enlisted in the Confederate Army and was in Company D of the 12th Alabama Infantry CSA and was killed on 3 May 1863, at the young age of 22, in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia during the War Between the States (Civil War).
When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Clarissa Elizabeth Harlow Kyser Bailey's oldest son, James Ernest, wasted no time in answering President Jefferson Davis' call for volunteers. In 1863, Clarissa watched as another son, William, 17, joined his brother James' company. That same year, James E. Bailey died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia. With General Robert E. Lee calling for every able-bodied man to come and serve in the Confederate Army, in July 1863 Clarissa watched as both her husband and yet another son, John, hardly 16, signed up in the Alabama Infantry. By January 1865, Green Berry had returned to Coffee County. John and William were back home by the Fall of 1865.
Click on the link below to see the memorial page for the actual burial site:
Actual burial here
Inscription
PVT CO D
12 ALA INF
CSA
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Nancy C. "Sis" Bailey Wall
1843–1933
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Williams M "General" Bailey
1845–1913
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W C Bailey
1845–1850
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John Wilburn "Baker" Bailey
1846–1922
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Samantha Bailey
1848–1872
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Martha Lucinda Bailey Lindsey
1850–1909
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Louisa Eliza Bailey Presswood
1853–1915
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Mary Adeline "Pompi" Bailey Satterwhite
1854–1947
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Green Berry Bailey Jr
1855–1923
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Charles Buckner "Charlie" Bailey
1860–1927
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William Francis "Barto" Bailey
1861–1947
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Donnie Ella Bailey Fallwell
1863–1939
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Emma Virginia "Mae" Bailey Ritter
1871–1924
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