Col. Guilford D. BAILEY


from The New York Times, June 3, 1862:


           NOTICES OF THE DEAD
  Col. GUILFORD D. BAILEY, Chief of Artillery, who
fell early in the action, was a graduate of West Point,
in the class of 1856, where he maintained an excellent
standing, receiving an appointment as Second Lieu-
tenant in the Second Artillery, from which he was
promoted to a Captaincy on the 3d of last Au-
gust, subsequently receiving a commission as
Colonel of Volunteers.  He was an ac-
tive young man, of bright and quick intellect,
who left a most favorable impression on my mind in
the brief intercourse I had with him.  I shall not soon
forget his bright, cheerful face, which greeted me on
the morning of Saturday; nor that other scene, when,
on the evening of the same day, I beheld his dead
body, covered with blood from the wound which had
so suddenly cut short his life.


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