154 An Address in Commemoration of J. W. Bailey. 
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ment as cadet in July, 1828, and graduated July, 18382. He 
was appointed second lieutenant in the Artillery, April, 1888, 
and was promoted to first lieutenant, February, 1837. During 
this time he was stationed at Old Point Comfort, Bellona Arse 
nal, and Fort Moultrie. But with the development of his 
of Chemistry, Mineralogy and Geology in the United Sta 
Military Academy, which appointment he held, first as assistant, 
incl He was mal- 
ried in 1835, and, with his wife and only daughter, then seven 
teen years of age, was on board the steamer Henry Clay which 
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But it is ‘more with his scientific position that we are 
His taste for science was very early developed. 
