Major James H. Bate, Civil War Veteran, Sumner Co., TN
James H. Bate Major, Company K, 2nd Tennessee Infantry
"...these dead shall not have died in vain."
Abraham Lincoln, 1863
"Made Major. Wounded in left side below waist at Chicakamauga, GA. Sept., 19, 1863. In hospital three months, then back to regiment.."---Ferguson, Sumner County, Tennessee in the Civil War, p. 40
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