Bailey, Joseph, 1825-1867

found: Goc, M.J. Hero of the Red River, c2007:ECIP t.p. (Joseph Bailey) galley (b. in Ohio, May 6, 1825; construction mgr., village developer, corp. financial officer, and dam builder in and around Newport, Wis.; volunteer col. from Wis. who used skills acquired while working in the logging industry to construct a dam that freed the Union fleet trapped by the shallow waters of La.'s Red River in spring 1864; later, Sheriff Bailey of Vernon County, Mo.; murdered on Mar. 26, 1867, probably by bushwackers, near Nevada City, Mo.)

found: Wikipedia, June 26, 2007(Joseph Bailey; May 6, 1825-Mar. 27, 1867; brigadier general in the Union Army during the American Civil War; capt. of the 4th Wis. Vol. Infantry Regt., part of B.F. Butler's Army of the Gulf which occupied New Orleans in spring 1862; named acting chief engineer for New Orleans after its capture; promoted to major, May 1863; contributed to Union Army's engineering activities at the siege of Port Hudson, La.; Aug. 1863, promoted to lt. col. when the regt. was redesignated as 4th Wis. Cavalry; during the Red River campaign, saved D.D. Porter's fleet of gunboats, pt. of the Union's Mississippi Squadron, by building a winged dam on the Red River near Alexandria, La.; June 1864, became the 4th Wis. Cavalry's colonel; assigned to command the Engineer Brigade, XIX Corps in the Dept. of the Gulf, June-Aug. 1864; commanded the district of W. Fla., Aug.-Nov. 1864; Nov. 1864, took charge of the District of Baton Rouge and Port Hudson, La.; promoted to brigadier general and assigned to the Western theater til the end of the war; Mar. 1865, breveted as a major general)