Humphrey Howell Bate, Civil War Veteran, Sumner Co., TN
Capt. Humphrey Howell Bate 1 Feb 1844---8 June 1911
"...these dead shall not have died in vain."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
"Wounded at Shiloh, April 6, 1862. Left in private home, unable to be moved. Wounded through neck, in left shoulder, in right leg and in knee joint of left leg. Unable to feed himself. Furloughed indefinitely. Returned to regiment July 19, 1864 and was discharged on disability."--- Ferguson, Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War, p. 41
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