Wiley Harrison Bailey

Wiley Harrison Bailey

Birth: December 23, 1843(Lowndes, Alabama)

Death: October 3, 1905 (Marshall, Alabama)

Burial: Mount Olive Cemetery (Union Grove, Marshall County, Alabama)

Find A Grave Memorial #32000177

Father: Charles Bailey (1798 – 1880)
Mother: Winfred(1798 - ?)

Spouse: Martha Jane McElroy (1846 – 1922)

Married:

1862 (Alabama)

Children:
William Marshall Bailey (1866–1914) Find A Grave Memorial #31354329
Charles Anderson Bailey (1869–1958) Find A Grave Memorial #111103323
Elijah H. Bailey (1871–1874) Unknown Burial
Mary Elizabeth Bailey Compton (1873–1948) Find A Grave Memorial# 17999661
Joseph Andrew Bailey (1876–1933) Unknown Burial
Nancy Leona Bailey Whisenant (1880 – 1911) Unknown Burial
George Robert David Bailey
Oscar Cleveland Bailey (1885 – 1906) Unknown Burial
Nora Ann Bailey Tapscott (1889 – 1954) Unknown Burial

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Notes: 
During the Civil War, Wiley H. Bailey,  was a member of Company B, 31st Alabama Infantry Volunteers, CSA; (battles included Battle of the Wilderness, VA and Chickamauga,TN). He was shot in the left side of head, damaging his ear and left eye and was also shot in the right leg and lost left forefinger and was shot in little finger on right hand. He surrendered at Mobile, AL, after peace was declared.As a stonemason, he traveled over several counties cutting stones for fireplaces.
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Battle Of The Wilderness Summary: The Battle of the Wilderness, fought May 5–7, 1864, was the first battle of Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Virginia Overland Campaign against Gen. Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. Both armies suffered heavy casualties, a harbinger of a bloody war of attrition by Grant against Lee's army and, eventually, the Confederate capital, Richmond, Virginia. The battle was tactically inconclusive, as Grant disengaged and continued his offensive. Grant attempted to move quickly through the dense underbrush of the Wilderness of Spotsylvania, but Lee launched two of his corps on parallel roads to intercept him. On the morning of May 5, the Union V Corps under Maj. Gen. Gouverneur K. Warren attacked the Confederate Second Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. Richard S. Ewell, on the Orange Turnpike. That afternoon the Third Corps, commanded by Lt. Gen. A.P. Hill, encountered Brig. Gen. George W. Getty's division (VI Corps) and Maj. Gen. Winfield S. Hancock's II Corps on the Orange Plank Road. Fighting until dark was fierce but inconclusive as both sides attempted to maneuver in the dense woods. At dawn on May 6, Hancock attacked along the Plank Road, driving Hill's Corps back in confusion, but the First Corps of Lt. Gen. James Longstreet arrived in time to prevent the collapse of the Confederate right flank. Longstreet followed up with a surprise flanking attack from an unfinished railroad bed that drove Hancock's men back to the Brock Road, but the momentum was lost when Longstreet was wounded by his own men. An evening attack by Brig. Gen. John B. Gordon against the Union right flank caused consternation at Union headquarters, but the lines stabilized and fighting ceased. On May 7, Grant disengaged and moved to the southeast, intending to leave the Wilderness to interpose his army between Lee and Richmond, leading to the bloody Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.

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Battle Of Chickamauga Summary: The Battle of Chickamauga, the biggest battle ever fought in Georgia, took place on September 18-20, 1863, during the Civil War (1861-65). With 34,000 casualties, it is generally accepted as the second bloodiest engagement of the war; only the Battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, with 51,000 casualties, was deadlier. The campaign that brought the Union and Confederate armies to Chickamauga began in late June 1863, when the Union Army of the Cumberland under Major General William S. Rosecrans advanced southeastward from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, against the Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by General Braxton Bragg. Rosecrans's goal was to capture the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, an important rail junction and gateway to the Deep South. Through a series of successful and relatively bloodless turning movements, Rosecrans's army forced Bragg's troops to abandon middle Tennessee and fall back to Chattanooga.

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