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Federal (USV)

Private

Waldo James Gates

(1844 - 1912)

Home State: Connecticut

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Connecticut Infantry

Before Antietam

From Manchester, he enlisted as a Private in Company H, 16th Connecticut Infantry on 26 July 1862.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

He was paroled on 28 September 1862 and was discharged on 9 June 1865.

After the War

By 1870 he was a "body maker" (possibly bodice maker) in New Haven, CT. He was a wagon maker in East Haddam in 1880.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870 and 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Abigail J Morgan (1847-1921) in about 1869 and they had two daughters, May and Harriet.

Birth

07/26/1844 in CT

Death

05/28/1912; New Haven, CT; burial in Evergreen Cemetery, New Haven, CT

Notes

1 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 634 [AotW citation 27246]

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