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Joseph Craig Bailey (Woodford County, KY, clerk and soldier)

b. 1839? d. 1900-06-23

Woodford County, Kentucky, clerk and soldier. Kentucky native. Son of Benjamin Bailey and Susan A. Bailey. Married to Sallie C. Berry Bailey in Woodford County, Kentucky, on September 14, 1865. Attended school in Fayette County, Kentucky, in 1850. Clerk in Woodford County in 1860. Served in the 4th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (C.S.A.) as a private and first lieutenant from 1861 to May 6, 1865. Signed a loyalty oath to the U.S. government on May 17, 1865.

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Race
White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Fayette County, District 2, p. 211A.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Woodford County, Versailles, p. 828.

Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Woodford County Marriages, Film 000252320, p. 138.

“Bailey, Joseph C.,” Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0096.

"Joseph Craig Bailey," St. Louis Daily Globe-Democrat (St. Louis, Missouri), June 24, 1900, p. 10.

Citation

Bailey, Joseph Craig. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32281529 (November 12, 2026).

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