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Blum in Hill County, Texas — The American South (West South Central)
 

Guy Bailey

Home Town of Old Gray Mare Composer

 
 
Guy Bailey Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, March 25, 2022
1. Guy Bailey Marker
Inscription.
Leader, Hood's Texas Brigade Band • His
wife, Mollie, smuggled notes and quinine
past enemy in her hair • Baileys' post
war shows still flew Confederate flag •
1869 and afterwards, Gus and Mollie and
nine children headquartered circus in
Blum • Owned show lots in 100 towns of
Texas. Ex-Confederates saw their circus
free • Bailey wrote "Old Gray Mare Ain't
What She Used to Be" on eve of second
Manassas Battle, when mare spooked camp
by running thru with load of tin pans

A Memorial to Texans
who served the Confederacy
erected by the State of Texas, 1964


(Reverse Side of Marker)
Texas Confederate Songs
"Lone Star Defenders" • "Land of Texas" •
"Bombardment and Battle of Galveston" •
"Dick Dowling and the Davis Guards at
Sabine Pass" • "The Ranger's Farewell" •
"Baylor's Partisan Rangers" • "Awake! to
Arms in Dixie!" • "Capture of 17 of Co.
H, 4th Texas Cavalry" • "My Texas Land" •
"To the Beloved Memory of Maj. Gen. Tom
Green" • "Lone Star Banner of the Free" •
"The Gallant Second Texians" • "The Rum
Raid at Velasco" • "The Texas Rangers at
the Battle of Chickamauga" • "Terry's
Texas Rangers" • "Hood's Texas Brigade" •
"The Navasota Volunteers" • "Song of the
Fifth Texas Regiment" • "The Dying Texas
Soldier Boy" • "Texians, to your Banner
Fly" • "The Horse Marines at Galveston" •
"O, He's Nothing But a Soldier" •
"The Martyrs of Texas" • "The Texas Sentinel
in Virginia" • "An Old Texian's Appeal” •
Texas Troops marched also to such
southern favorites as "Dixie", "The
Yellow Rose of Texas", "The Bonny Blue
Flag" and "Mother Is the Battle Over?"

 
Erected 1964 by State of Texas. (Marker Number 2308.)
 
Topics. This historical marker is listed in these topic lists: Arts, Letters, MusicWar, US CivilWomen. A significant historical year for this entry is 1869.
 
Location. 32° 8.543′ N, 97° 23.833′ W.
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Marker is in Blum, Texas, in Hill County. It is at the intersection of 4th Street (County Highway 67) and Avenue C (Farm to Market Road 933), on the right when traveling east on 4th Street. The marker is a pink granite marker located at the southeast corner of the intersection. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Blum TX 76627, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in the Prairies & Lakes Region. Globally, it is in North America, a Gulf of Mexico state, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Spain, the Republic of Texas, and one of the Confederate States of America.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 8 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Blum Cemetery (approx. 0.3 miles away); Erected in Memory of Phillip Nolan (approx. 2.6 miles away); Grange Hall Cemetery (approx. 5.9 miles away); Rio Vista (approx. 6.4 miles away); Menefee Reunion (approx. 6½ miles away); Henry Briden Cabin (approx. 6½ miles away); Early Cattle Trade (approx. 6½ miles away); Huron (approx.
Guy Bailey Marker - Reverse side image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, March 25, 2022
2. Guy Bailey Marker - Reverse side
7.4 miles away).
 
Guy Bailey Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, March 25, 2022
3. Guy Bailey Marker
Guy Bailey Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by James Hulse, March 25, 2022
4. Guy Bailey Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on March 26, 2022. It was originally submitted on March 26, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas. This page has been viewed 593 times since then and 27 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 26, 2022, by James Hulse of Medina, Texas.
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