Capt. Humphrey Pollock Bate, Civil War Veteran, Sumner Co., TN
Capt. Humphrey Pollock Bate 26 June 1828---6 Apr 1862 at Shiloh
"...these dead shall not have died in vain."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
"Capt. Killed at Shiloh, Tenn. April 6, 1862. During a lull in the fighting he met his brother, Col. W. B. Bate, and while talking over the battle, was in the act of giving Col. Bate a light from his cigar when he was mortally wounded."---Ferguson, Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War, p. 40. Read more about this touching story between brothers.
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