James A. Coates
Name: James A. Coates
Affiliation: Union
Unit: 23rd USCT Inf.
Race: African American
Owner's Name: n/a
Place of Birth/Residence: Carroll County, MD
Enlistment Date: 12/17/1863
Company: B
Slave at Enlistment?: No
Rank at End of Service: 1st Sergeant
Notes:
Enlisted in Baltimore, MD; Drafted; Killed in Action before Petersburg, VA on 7/30/1864
Source(s):
Compiled Military Service Records of Volunteer Union Soldiers, National Archives, Washington, DC, as scanned on Ancestry.com, U.S., Colored Troops Military Service Records, 1861-1865 [database on-line].
