The son of John & Jane (Quick) Bates, he married Mary von Bownockwell and fathered Sarah Jane (b. 05/30/51 - married Gustavus G. Wells), John (b. @1859), Philip (b. @1863), and Ella (b. @1874). In 1861, he was a baker by profession and stood 6' 1" tall with dark hair and hazel eyes. According to the Pennsylvania Archives ARIAS card, he was a resident of Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1861, but that is unconfirmed. He and his family may have been living in Philadelphia in 1860.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Duncannon, Perry County, September 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 18 as a private with Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). Promoted to corporal October 1, 1861, he was then appointed farrier December 1, 1861, detailed as regimental blacksmith January 1 - August 4, 1862, and reduced to ranks September 30, 1863. Hospitalized at Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 1863, he remained a patient there through April 1864. Arrested and confined at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 1864 through March 1, 1865, for "disobedience of orders," he was never brought to trial, and his compiled military service records fail to define the nature of the order he allegedly disobeyed. Those records do show that he somehow never mustered out even though Maj. Gen. George Thomas had ordered his release for precisely that purpose. In 1870, the War Department rectified that oversight by granting him an honorable discharge to date April 10, 1865.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Bradford County. Mary died February 11, 1901, and he married Polly A. Andress November 14, 1901. Cause of death was "heart disease."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Duncannon, Perry County, September 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 18 as a private with Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). Promoted to corporal October 1, 1861, he was then appointed farrier December 1, 1861, detailed as regimental blacksmith January 1 - August 4, 1862, and reduced to ranks September 30, 1863. Hospitalized at Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 1863, he remained a patient there through April 1864. Arrested and confined at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 1864 through March 1, 1865, for "disobedience of orders," he was never brought to trial, and his compiled military service records fail to define the nature of the order he allegedly disobeyed. Those records do show that he somehow never mustered out even though Maj. Gen. George Thomas had ordered his release for precisely that purpose. In 1870, the War Department rectified that oversight by granting him an honorable discharge to date April 10, 1865.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Bradford County. Mary died February 11, 1901, and he married Polly A. Andress November 14, 1901. Cause of death was "heart disease."
The son of John & Jane (Quick) Bates, he married Mary von Bownockwell and fathered Sarah Jane (b. 05/30/51 - married Gustavus G. Wells), John (b. @1859), Philip (b. @1863), and Ella (b. @1874). In 1861, he was a baker by profession and stood 6' 1" tall with dark hair and hazel eyes. According to the Pennsylvania Archives ARIAS card, he was a resident of Duncannon, Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1861, but that is unconfirmed. He and his family may have been living in Philadelphia in 1860.
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Duncannon, Perry County, September 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 18 as a private with Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). Promoted to corporal October 1, 1861, he was then appointed farrier December 1, 1861, detailed as regimental blacksmith January 1 - August 4, 1862, and reduced to ranks September 30, 1863. Hospitalized at Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 1863, he remained a patient there through April 1864. Arrested and confined at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 1864 through March 1, 1865, for "disobedience of orders," he was never brought to trial, and his compiled military service records fail to define the nature of the order he allegedly disobeyed. Those records do show that he somehow never mustered out even though Maj. Gen. George Thomas had ordered his release for precisely that purpose. In 1870, the War Department rectified that oversight by granting him an honorable discharge to date April 10, 1865.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Bradford County. Mary died February 11, 1901, and he married Polly A. Andress November 14, 1901. Cause of death was "heart disease."
A Civil War veteran, he enlisted in Duncannon, Perry County, September 10, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg October 18 as a private with Co. A, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa). Promoted to corporal October 1, 1861, he was then appointed farrier December 1, 1861, detailed as regimental blacksmith January 1 - August 4, 1862, and reduced to ranks September 30, 1863. Hospitalized at Nashville, Tennessee, November 16, 1863, he remained a patient there through April 1864. Arrested and confined at Chattanooga, Tennessee, September 1864 through March 1, 1865, for "disobedience of orders," he was never brought to trial, and his compiled military service records fail to define the nature of the order he allegedly disobeyed. Those records do show that he somehow never mustered out even though Maj. Gen. George Thomas had ordered his release for precisely that purpose. In 1870, the War Department rectified that oversight by granting him an honorable discharge to date April 10, 1865.
By 1870, he was living with his family in Bradford County. Mary died February 11, 1901, and he married Polly A. Andress November 14, 1901. Cause of death was "heart disease."
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