Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 February 1892 — An Old Veteran. [ARTICLE]

An Old Veteran.

Frederick Baily entered the British Royal Artillery in 1809. He was wounded at New Orleans fighting against General Jackson a few years later, and then entered the Prussian arm, fighting in all the great battles of 1815, and making himself more or less conspicuous tu a minor way. Then he retired, a lieutenant, and his name was never heard agalu beyond his own village for seventy-six years, until he is reported as a centenarian.