Bagby, a schoolteacher like his older brother Jesse P. Bagby, enlisted on May 28, 1861 as a private in Co. D of the 20th VA Infantry, the Powhatan Rifles. He was taken prisoner at Rich Mountain, WV on July 11, 1861 and paroled on July 17, 1861. Bagby was discharged by order of the Adjutant-General for an undisclosed reason on September 21, 1861. On June 22, 1863, Bagby enlisted as a private in Co. C of the 2nd LA Cavalry. He surrendered in Washington, GA on May 29, 1865.
After the war, he was teaching school in Appomattox County, VA in 1880.
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