WASHINGTON, May 5, 1899 – Colonel Clarence M. Bailey of the Sixteenth Infantry has been retired upon the recommendation of a medical board by reason of disability incident to the service.

This retirement promotes Lieutenant Colonel Charles C. Hood of the Nineteenth Infantry to be Colonel of the Sixteenth Infantry and Major William F. Spurgin, Twenty-Third Infantry, to be Lieutenant Colonel of the Twenty-Third Infantry.

CHICAGO, May 22, 1920 – Brigadier General Clarence M. Bailey, U.S.A., retired, died yesterday in his apartment in the Palmer House.  He was 79 years old.  For a number of years he commanded the Fifteenth Infantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan. 

His parents moved from New York, where he was born, to Indiana in the 50’s.  In 1861 he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant of Infantry from Indiana and he fought throughout the Civil War.  In 1866 he won his Captaincy.

In 1891 he entered the regular army as a Major.  He became a Colonel in 1898.

By an Act of Congress of April 23, 1904, he was made a Brigadier General. 

His home was in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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