Pvt. James Ernest Bailey, (CSA)

James was in Company D of the 12th Alabama Infantry CSA and was killed in the Battle of Chancellorsville in VA during the War Between the States (Civil War).

When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, Clarissa Elizabeth Harlow Kyser Bailey's oldest son, James Ernest, wasted no time in answering President Jefferson Davis' call for volunteers. In 1863, Clarissa watched as another son, William, 17, joined his brother James' company. That same year, James E. Bailey died in the Battle of Chancellorsville in VA. With General Robert E. Lee calling for every able-bodied man to come and serve in the Confederate Army, in July 1853 Clarissa watched as both her husband and yet another son, John, hardly 16, signed up in the Alabama Infantry. By January 1865, Green Berry had returned to Coffee County. John and William were back home by the Fall of 1865.