Alexis P. Bailly

Name: Alexis P. Bailly Company: G Resigned
Birth Date: November 23, 1826(?) Place: Mendota, Dakota County, Minnesota	Mustered In Date: January 5, 1862 Rank: First Lieutenant Age: 35(?) Residence prior to military service: Wabasha County, Minnesota (1850); Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota Vocation prior to military service: Trader
Death Date: 1899 Place: Burial:	Mustered Out Date: July 22, 1863 Rank: First Lieutenant Age: about 36(?) Residence following military service: [description] Vocation following military service: [description]

Alexis P. Bailly Biography and Civil War Narrative

Alexis Phillip Bailly was born on November 23, 1826 to Alexis C. and Lucy Anne (Faribault) Bailly at Mendota, Dakota County, Minnesota. The senior Alexis was one-fourth Ottawa Indian, and Lucy Faribault was the child of a French trader father and a mixed-blood mother.

On October 29, 1849, Alexis married Elizabeth Dunn in Knox County, Illinois. Elizabeth was born November 23, 1829 in New York. Alexis and Elizabeth had a son, Alexis Francis Bailey, born on September 4, 1857, in Hastings, Dakota County, Minnesota.

Alexis P. Bailly enlisted in Company G of the 5th Minnesota Regiment on January 5, 1862. His younger brother, Henry G. Bailly enlisted two months later on March 10 as a Private in Company G. Alexis was appointed First Lieutenant of the company. Alexis served for about a year during which the 5th Minnesota Regiment participated in a battle at Farmington (May 28, 1862), the Siege of Corinth (May 26-30), the Battle of Iuka (September 19), the Battle of Corinth (October 3-4), Grant's Central Mississippi campaign (November 1862-January 1863), and the Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi (May 18-July 4). Alexis Bailly resigned his position on July 22, 1863, as the regiment was concluding its guard duty at Black River Bridge. Sergeant John King was promoted to fill the vacancy left in the position of First Lieutenant.

Alexis' brother Henry continued to serve in the 5th Minnesota and was promoted to First Lieutenant of Company D on September 11, 1863. Henry was mortally wounded in the Battle of Nashville on December 15-16, 1864.

About 1864, Alexis married Christene Ann Bertsch in Wabasha, Wabasha County, Minnesota. Christene was born March 10, 1844 in Furna, Canton Graubuenden, Switzerland.

Alexis P. Bailly died in 1899.

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