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Federal (USV)

Private

William Bates

(c. 1843 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 90th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted and mustered on 23 January 1862 as Private, Company A, 90th Pennsylvania Infantry in Philadelphia.

On the Campaign

He was missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was listed as "not accounted for" on the Company muster-out roll.

References & notes

Casualty information from Nelson.1 His service from the Card File.2

Birth

c. 1843

Notes

1 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 125 [AotW citation 16316]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 23592]

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