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Erastus M. Gates (Illinois, student & 2d lieut. 45 KY Mtd Inf USA)

b. 1842? d. 1920?

Illinois student and soldier. Ohio native. Son of Samuel E. Gates and Lucinda A. Gates. Student in Jackson County, Ohio, in 1850. Attended McKendree College in Lebanon, Illinois, in 1860. Served in the 45th Kentucky Volunteer Mounted Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as second lieutenant from November 30, 1863, to March 1, 1864.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Ohio, Jackson County, Madison, p.249B.

Fourteenth Manuscript Census of the United States (1920), Population Schedules, Illinois, Adams County, Riverside, Enumeration District 27, p. 567A.

Catalogue of the Officers and Students of M’Kendree College, 1859-60, (St. Louis, MO: R. P. Studley & Co, Printers and Binders, 1859), 11.

Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Kentucky, vol. 2, 1861-1866 (Frankfort: Kentucky Yeoman Office, 1866), p. 453.

Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers who Served in Organizations From State of Kentucky, NARA RG 94, Microfilm Series M397, Roll 436.

Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Illinois, 1862-1866, NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M764, Roll 27, Utica Township, Illinois, January 1864 - April 1865, p. 1 of 530 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com).

Find A Grave, “Erastus M. Gates (1842-1920)," Memorial # 91851025, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/91851025/erastus-m.-gates (accessed February 16, 2021).

KYR-0002-009-0015.

Citation

Gates, Erastus M.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32199203 (November 12, 2026).

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