12/14/1825 - Born, Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co, VA (now WV) Father: Edward B. Bailey Mother: May C. [maiden name unknown])
- Student, Lewisburg Academy, Greenbrier Co, VA
1848 - M.D. degree, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA (from VA before medical school)
1848 - Practiced medicine, Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co, VA
1850,1851 - Practiced medicine, Kanawha Co, VA
1851 - Married, Margaret Francis Shrewsbury
1852 - Practiced medicine, Palmyra, Marion Co, MO
1859 - 2nd M.D. degree, St. Louis Medical College, St. Louis, MO (from MO before medical school)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Palmyra, Marion Co, MO
- Captain, Palmyra Guards, Palmyra, MO
12/09/1861 - Enlisted, MO State Troops, St. Clair Co, MO (from Palmyra, MO)
01/26/1862 - Mustered in as Pvt, Co. B, 1st MO Infantry (subsequently became the 2nd MO Infantry, Confederate States Army), Springfield, MO
01/27/1862 - Surgeon, 2nd MO Infantry, Confederate States Army
02/17/1862 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States, to rank
from 01/27/1862
05/26/1862 - Surgeon, 2nd MO Infantry, Camp Churchill Clark, Corinth, MS
08/01/1862 - Medical Purveyor, Department of AL, MS & E. LA
09/24/1862 - Surgeon, Tupelo, MS
09/26/1862 - Confirmed as Surgeon by the Confederate States Senate
02/24/1863 - Sold a set of amputating instruments to Surgeon & Medical Purveyor
Richard Potts, Jackson, MS, for $100
04/05/1863 - Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Department of MS & E. LA, Vicksburg, MS
08/01/1863 - Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Demopolis, AL
09/01/1863 - For failing to report to the Post Commander, Demopolis, AL, Surgeon E. H. C. Bailey "is ordered to leave the post tomorrow morning" ...."Dr. Dancy will immediately take charge of the Medical Purveyor's Office and stores and conduct the business connected with that Department" Special Orders No. 83. N[athaniel] Wickliffe, Lt. Col, Commanding Post
09/02/1863 - "The General [William Montgomery Gardner] commanding directs me to say to you that the enforcement of Special Order #83 issued from your office will be suspended until such time as he will have heard from Department Headquarters in reference to it." S. S. Carlisle, A.A.A.G.
12/15/1863 - Surgeon & Medical Purveyor, Demopolis, AL
01/00/1864 - Medical Purveyor, Demopolis, AL, in the Department commanded by Lt. Gen. Polk
05/12/1865 - Paroled, Meridian, MS, as Surgeon & Medical Purveyor
1865,1870,1874,1880, - Practiced medicine, Demopolis, Marengo Co, AL
1883 - Member, Marengo County Medical Association, Marengo Co, AL
1886,1890,1893,1896 - Practiced medicine, Demopolis, Marengo Co, AL

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
07/16/2012. Unpublished database.

Additional comments:

Edward H.C. Bailey, born on 14 December 1825 in Lewisburg, VA...which is apparently now Lewisburg, Greenbrier Co., West Virginia...

A noted physician and surgeon, he was the son of Edward B. and May C. Bailey.

He married Margaret Frances Shrewsbury, daughter of John Dickinson Shrewsbury and Nancy Jane Morris, in 1851.

Source: (Zee)The Mikado, et al.
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