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JOSEPH M. BAILEY MEMOIR

Memoir, undated
Manuscript Collection MC 548
Typewritten autobiographical essay, "Story of a Confederate Soldier, 1861-1865," by First Lieutenant Joseph M. Bailey, Company D, Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry. Bailey originally joined the state troops, was initially assigned to the Fourth Arkansas Infantry, and was at the battle of Wilson's Creek. Later, in the regular Confederate army, he fought at Pea Ridge, Corinth, and Port Hudson.

Positive photocopy of original owned by Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Donated by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Lorenzo de Zavala State Archives and Library Building, Austin, Texas, 13 May 1985.

Processed by Nan Lawler, January 1986. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

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