The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bailey, Guilford Dudley

BAILEY, Guilford Dudley, soldier, was born at Martinsburg, N. Y., June 4, 1834. He was educated for the profession of arms, and after his graduation from West Point in 1856, was attached to the 2d artillery. After some frontier experience, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth during the Kansas conflict in 1857-’59. When the state of Texas seceded in 1861, he was stationed at Fort Brown, and with his superior officer, Captain Stoneman, refused to surrender, when General Twiggs proposed to turn over the command to the Confederates. He reported for duty at Washington, was assigned to Hunt's battery and did gallant service at Fort Pickens Fla., 1861. He returned to New York, where he recruited the 1st N. Y. light artillery, and as colonel joined the army of the Potomac, September, 1861, and served in the Peninsular campaign as chief of artillery in General Casey's division. He was killed at the battle of Seven Pines, meeting death while directing the firing of his guns. His body was conveyed to the cemetery at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., where a monument was raised to his memory. He died May 31, 1862.