Served as a private in Co. I, 56th New York Infantry
VETERAN ALFRED L. BATES DEAD
INMATE OF SOLDIERS' HOME FOR PAST FIVE YEARS.
He Was a Daring Soldier of the 56th Regiment - For Many Years a Resident of Town of Thompson.
Alfred L. Bates, of Montecello, died at the Soldiers Home at Bath on Saturday morning, February 27th, of kidney and bladder trouble, from which disease he had suffered for two years. For the past three months he had been confined to the hospital ward patiently waiting for the end.
He was born at Bridgeville on July 26th, 1841, and was therefore 74 years old. He was the son of Samuel F. Bates and Jane Burrow Bates, farmers of the town of Thompson, which occupation the son followed for a livelihood.
When President Lincoln called for volunteers Alfred L. Bates responded, "Father Abraham, here am I." As a member of the 56th New York Vol. he served for four long and bloody years and was in some of the fiercest battles of the war, but was never wounded and never captured. Among those battles were Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, Melvin Hill and Honey Hill all of them bloody death beds for thousands of the brave blue jackets of the north. Mr. Bates was among the bravest men of the war. He knew no fear and never shirked a duty.
Five years ago he entered the Soldiers' Home, where many of his old regiment boys were resting from their labors. During those years he saw one after another of his brothers in arms and his brothers in peace carried to their last resting place and finally he too answered the call. Thus one by one they go out to meet the Great General.
He is survived by three sons: George, D., of Middletown; Albert, of Honesdale, and William of Walden. Two brothers, John, of Monticello, and Calvin F., of Stamford, Conn., and three half-sisters, Mrs. M. C. Carey, of Monticello, Mrs. G. W. Purdy, of Spring View, Neb., and Pluma, of Mididletown, also survive.
--Monticello, N. Y. Republican Watchman, 1915:
Alfred L. Bates, of Company F, 56th New York Infantry, died Feb. 27. Funeral March 1.
--The Steuben Courier, Bath, New York, Friday, Mar. 5, 1915:
DEATHS
BATES-Sept. 22, in Monticello, of consumption, Samuel F. Bates, aged 61 years, 11 months and 22 days.
--Port Jervis Evening Gazette, 1874:
VETERAN ALFRED L. BATES DEAD
INMATE OF SOLDIERS' HOME FOR PAST FIVE YEARS.
He Was a Daring Soldier of the 56th Regiment - For Many Years a Resident of Town of Thompson.
Alfred L. Bates, of Montecello, died at the Soldiers Home at Bath on Saturday morning, February 27th, of kidney and bladder trouble, from which disease he had suffered for two years. For the past three months he had been confined to the hospital ward patiently waiting for the end.
He was born at Bridgeville on July 26th, 1841, and was therefore 74 years old. He was the son of Samuel F. Bates and Jane Burrow Bates, farmers of the town of Thompson, which occupation the son followed for a livelihood.
When President Lincoln called for volunteers Alfred L. Bates responded, "Father Abraham, here am I." As a member of the 56th New York Vol. he served for four long and bloody years and was in some of the fiercest battles of the war, but was never wounded and never captured. Among those battles were Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, Melvin Hill and Honey Hill all of them bloody death beds for thousands of the brave blue jackets of the north. Mr. Bates was among the bravest men of the war. He knew no fear and never shirked a duty.
Five years ago he entered the Soldiers' Home, where many of his old regiment boys were resting from their labors. During those years he saw one after another of his brothers in arms and his brothers in peace carried to their last resting place and finally he too answered the call. Thus one by one they go out to meet the Great General.
He is survived by three sons: George, D., of Middletown; Albert, of Honesdale, and William of Walden. Two brothers, John, of Monticello, and Calvin F., of Stamford, Conn., and three half-sisters, Mrs. M. C. Carey, of Monticello, Mrs. G. W. Purdy, of Spring View, Neb., and Pluma, of Mididletown, also survive.
--Monticello, N. Y. Republican Watchman, 1915:
Alfred L. Bates, of Company F, 56th New York Infantry, died Feb. 27. Funeral March 1.
--The Steuben Courier, Bath, New York, Friday, Mar. 5, 1915:
DEATHS
BATES-Sept. 22, in Monticello, of consumption, Samuel F. Bates, aged 61 years, 11 months and 22 days.
--Port Jervis Evening Gazette, 1874:
Served as a private in Co. I, 56th New York Infantry
VETERAN ALFRED L. BATES DEAD
INMATE OF SOLDIERS' HOME FOR PAST FIVE YEARS.
He Was a Daring Soldier of the 56th Regiment - For Many Years a Resident of Town of Thompson.
Alfred L. Bates, of Montecello, died at the Soldiers Home at Bath on Saturday morning, February 27th, of kidney and bladder trouble, from which disease he had suffered for two years. For the past three months he had been confined to the hospital ward patiently waiting for the end.
He was born at Bridgeville on July 26th, 1841, and was therefore 74 years old. He was the son of Samuel F. Bates and Jane Burrow Bates, farmers of the town of Thompson, which occupation the son followed for a livelihood.
When President Lincoln called for volunteers Alfred L. Bates responded, "Father Abraham, here am I." As a member of the 56th New York Vol. he served for four long and bloody years and was in some of the fiercest battles of the war, but was never wounded and never captured. Among those battles were Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, Melvin Hill and Honey Hill all of them bloody death beds for thousands of the brave blue jackets of the north. Mr. Bates was among the bravest men of the war. He knew no fear and never shirked a duty.
Five years ago he entered the Soldiers' Home, where many of his old regiment boys were resting from their labors. During those years he saw one after another of his brothers in arms and his brothers in peace carried to their last resting place and finally he too answered the call. Thus one by one they go out to meet the Great General.
He is survived by three sons: George, D., of Middletown; Albert, of Honesdale, and William of Walden. Two brothers, John, of Monticello, and Calvin F., of Stamford, Conn., and three half-sisters, Mrs. M. C. Carey, of Monticello, Mrs. G. W. Purdy, of Spring View, Neb., and Pluma, of Mididletown, also survive.
--Monticello, N. Y. Republican Watchman, 1915:
Alfred L. Bates, of Company F, 56th New York Infantry, died Feb. 27. Funeral March 1.
--The Steuben Courier, Bath, New York, Friday, Mar. 5, 1915:
DEATHS
BATES-Sept. 22, in Monticello, of consumption, Samuel F. Bates, aged 61 years, 11 months and 22 days.
--Port Jervis Evening Gazette, 1874:
VETERAN ALFRED L. BATES DEAD
INMATE OF SOLDIERS' HOME FOR PAST FIVE YEARS.
He Was a Daring Soldier of the 56th Regiment - For Many Years a Resident of Town of Thompson.
Alfred L. Bates, of Montecello, died at the Soldiers Home at Bath on Saturday morning, February 27th, of kidney and bladder trouble, from which disease he had suffered for two years. For the past three months he had been confined to the hospital ward patiently waiting for the end.
He was born at Bridgeville on July 26th, 1841, and was therefore 74 years old. He was the son of Samuel F. Bates and Jane Burrow Bates, farmers of the town of Thompson, which occupation the son followed for a livelihood.
When President Lincoln called for volunteers Alfred L. Bates responded, "Father Abraham, here am I." As a member of the 56th New York Vol. he served for four long and bloody years and was in some of the fiercest battles of the war, but was never wounded and never captured. Among those battles were Williamsburgh, Fair Oaks, Melvin Hill and Honey Hill all of them bloody death beds for thousands of the brave blue jackets of the north. Mr. Bates was among the bravest men of the war. He knew no fear and never shirked a duty.
Five years ago he entered the Soldiers' Home, where many of his old regiment boys were resting from their labors. During those years he saw one after another of his brothers in arms and his brothers in peace carried to their last resting place and finally he too answered the call. Thus one by one they go out to meet the Great General.
He is survived by three sons: George, D., of Middletown; Albert, of Honesdale, and William of Walden. Two brothers, John, of Monticello, and Calvin F., of Stamford, Conn., and three half-sisters, Mrs. M. C. Carey, of Monticello, Mrs. G. W. Purdy, of Spring View, Neb., and Pluma, of Mididletown, also survive.
--Monticello, N. Y. Republican Watchman, 1915:
Alfred L. Bates, of Company F, 56th New York Infantry, died Feb. 27. Funeral March 1.
--The Steuben Courier, Bath, New York, Friday, Mar. 5, 1915:
DEATHS
BATES-Sept. 22, in Monticello, of consumption, Samuel F. Bates, aged 61 years, 11 months and 22 days.
--Port Jervis Evening Gazette, 1874:
Inscription
ALF'D L. BATES
CO. I,
56 N.Y. INF.
