Bailey's Dam was a timber dam on the Red River in Alexandria, Louisiana. It was built in 1864 during the Red River Campaign in the American Civil War...

River. Porter's fleet was saved when an innovative Union engineer built Bailey's Dam which raised the water level enough to float Porter's gunboats over the...

attacks during Joseph Bailey's attempts to get Porter's squadron over the rapids there, with the aid of Bailey's Dam and two small wing dams upstream. After...

suggestion to give Bailey's idea a try. Bailey suggested building a wing dam, similar to those he had built as a Wisconsin lumberman. The dam, Bailey argued, would...

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Colonel Joseph Bailey designed Bailey's Dam, to which Banks soon gave night-and-day attention. Several boats got through before a partial dam collapse. An...

Robert D. Bailey, Sr., a prominent jurist, diarist, and citizen of Pineville. R. D. Bailey lake was dedicated in August 1980. The R. D. Bailey Dam is 310...

Confederates. The Corps D'Afrique Engineers is also credited with building Bailey's Dam, which saved the Union navy's Mississippi River Squadron. Late October...

overlooking the rapides in the Red River then in existence and the remains of Bailey's Dam which had been built in May 1864. The fort was built mainly by free Negroes...

was officially renamed the 99th Regiment. The regiment helped build Bailey's Dam during the actions near Alexandria. At the end of the campaign it skirmished...

railroad as material to dump into the Red River in the construction of Bailey's Dam. The car house in Alexandria was burned when the town was destroyed by...

US Colored Infantry regiments on April 4, 1864) whose work building Bailey's Dam saved the Union navy's Mississippi River Squadron. 1 Regiment of Heavy...

lost. The engineering abilities of Colonel Joseph Bailey, who supervised the construction of Bailey's Dam, helped save the fleet. During the Red River Campaign...

renamed the 97th U.S. Colored Infantry Regiment. The regiment helped build Bailey's Dam during the actions near Alexandria rescuing Admiral Porter’s Mississippi...

Randolph and Buhlow State Historic Site includes the remains of Bailey's Dam. This dam allowed for the Union Fleet, under the command of Admiral David...

Donaldson Dam's top and bottom lakes, Abe Bailey Dam and three small farm dams west of Welverdiend. There are also three decommissioned dams - Tudor Dam, Lancaster...

is a list of dams and reservoirs in West Virginia. All major dams are linked below. The National Inventory of Dams defines any "major dam" as being 50...

river's water level unexpectedly began to fall. Two temporary dams, known as Bailey's Dam, had to be built in April–May to raise the water level high enough...

of 2:01.06, edging Cavonnier at the wire by a nose. He was jockey Jerry Bailey's second Kentucky Derby winner, and the second in a row for trainer D. Wayne...

river's water level unexpectedly began to fall. Two temporary dams, known as Bailey's Dam, had to be built in April–May to raise the water level high enough...

The Kakhovka Dam in Ukraine was breached in the early hours of 6 June 2023, causing extensive flooding along the lower Dnieper river, also called the...

The St. Francis Dam, or the San Francisquito Dam, was a concrete gravity dam located in San Francisquito Canyon in northern Los Angeles County, California...

river's water level unexpectedly began to fall. Two temporary dams, known as Bailey's Dam, had to be built in April–May to raise the water level high enough...

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near Alexandria. Finally, a Union army engineer, Colonel Joseph Bailey designed Bailey's Dam which raised the water level enough to allow Porter's fleet to...

marched to Alexandria, LA and assisted in the building of the celebrated Bailey's Dam and assisted in closing operations after the Battle of Spanish Fort near...

Deaths of Volunteers. Bates, pp.1153–1154. "'Bailey's Dam' Construction Report, Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Bailey (17 May 1864)", in 47th Pennsylvania Volunteers:...

155654). It is bordered to the northeast by Seven Corners, to the east by Bailey's Crossroads, to the south by Lincolnia, to the southwest by Annandale, and...

Colonel Joseph Bailey designed Bailey's Dam, to which Banks soon gave night-and-day attention. Several boats got through before a partial dam collapse. An...

A Bailey bridge is a type of portable, pre-fabricated, truss bridge. It was developed in 1940–1941 by the British for military use during the Second World...