BATES, DELAVAN - Medal of Honor Recipient
Rank and organization: Colonel, 30th U.S. Colored Troops. Place and
date: At Cemetery Hill, Va., 30 July 1864. Entered service at: Oswego County,
N.Y. Born: 1840, Schoharie County, N.Y. Date of issue: 22 June 1891. Citation:
Gallantry in action where he fell, shot through the face, at the head of
his regiment.
This data was extracted from the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, U.S. Senate, Medal of Honor Recipients: 1863-1973 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1973)
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