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Re: Dr. Thomas Harris Maddox,Alexandria,la.

An 1863 map of Gen. Wm. Franklin shows "Bailey" slightly above (N) of Chambers (presumably Jos. Chambers)...and those location are about 4 miles South of Alexandria...near Bayou Roberts. I also noticed the naming of streets in that region also support plantation activites of the past.(a lot of maps do)
Educated guess only,but, until I have conformation, it's the best that I can do.
September 21, 1864 General Bailey is trying to have supplies delivered from New Orleans to the Loyalist who were left behind around Alexandria by Gen. Banks (5.1864) but to no avail, and I'm sure before the Union arrives in 1865 ,with the desertions, flood, etc..many Confederates were happy ' the jig was over'. Somehow Gen. Bailey (a Gen. from a previous war) survived the war,possibly because he had sold cotton to the C.S.A. in 1863 and like many ,he was just trying to make the best of a bad situation although many other planters from that region refused the sale of their cotton to the Union and refuse to take the Union Oath ,which at that time was said in French as "swallowing the blue dog". His son-in-law,a Maj.(c.s.a) Serving at Galvestown ,Tx.,who's name eludes me now,purchased the house after the war and from that moment on I don't know anything about the home.
Dr. Maddox 's home was also occupied by Gen Lawler (xiii) in Alexandria following the Union retreat from Grande Ecore and I've failed to pin point it's location,but, if it survived the Union occupation chances are it was Union friendly. (there are exceptions to every rule).

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