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Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Bates

(c. 1840 - 1863)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

Age 21, he enlisted on 25 May 1861 at Natchez and mustered as a Private in Company I of the 16th Mississippi Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Corinth.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was killed at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1840

Death

05/03/1863; Chancellorsville, VA

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 29696]

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