. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . was engagedin all the battles and cavalry operations around CityPoint, Petersburg, and Richmond, among them thefollowing: Bottoms Bridge, February 7, 1864; Notto-way Bridge, May 8, 1864; Chula Station, May 12, 1864;Blacks and Whites, May 14, 1864; South Quay, June 2,1864; before Petersburg, June 15, 1864 ; Staunton 25, 1S64; Roanoke Bridge, June 26, 1864; andReams Station, June 29, 1864. It was on the Wilson cavalry raid in 1864 that CaptainBailey was taken prisoner-of-war, while acting as officerof the rear-
. Officers of the army and navy (volunteer) who served in the civil war . was engagedin all the battles and cavalry operations around CityPoint, Petersburg, and Richmond, among them thefollowing: Bottoms Bridge, February 7, 1864; Notto-way Bridge, May 8, 1864; Chula Station, May 12, 1864;Blacks and Whites, May 14, 1864; South Quay, June 2,1864; before Petersburg, June 15, 1864 ; Staunton 25, 1S64; Roanoke Bridge, June 26, 1864; andReams Station, June 29, 1864. It was on the Wilson cavalry raid in 1864 that CaptainBailey was taken prisoner-of-war, while acting as officerof the rear-guard in the retreat from Reams Station,June 29, 1864. His captors first took him to Richmond,then sent him to Salisbury Jail. North Carolina, where hewas afterwards transferred to Camp Oglethorpe. Macon,Georgia. When General Stoneman, from Shermansarmy, made his disastrous raid, and threatened to liberatethe prisoners at Macon, Captain Bailey was sent toCharleston, South Carolina, and confined in the jail whichwas under fire of the Federal batteries. ( (wing to close. confinement and poor food he became ill and much ema-ciated, and was paroled in January, 1865, and finally ex-changed in April, 1805. At the time of his parole Cap-tain Bailey only weighed eighty-five pounds. He waspromoted first lieutenant while a prisoner of war. Upon being exchanged Captain Bailey joined his regi-ment in the field, and took part in the closing drama ofthe war,—the surrender of Lee at Appomattox. Afterthe surrender his regiment was ordered to SouthwesternVirginia. In fuly, 1865, his regiment was consolidatedwith the First New York Mounted Rifles, and CaptainBailey was assigned to Company B, and was stationed atTazewell Court-House, Virginia, and acted as provost-marshal for that district up to the time he was musteredout of service in November, 1865. President Johnson brevetted him captain for gallantand meritorious services during the war. Few officers,especially one so young, saw harder ser
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