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- William C. Oates joined the Confederate States Army in July 1861 and entered the army as captain, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and eventually became the commander of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the spring of 1863.
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William C. Oates joined the Confederate States Army in July 1861 and entered the army as captain, 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment, and eventually became the commander of the 15th Alabama Infantry Regiment in the spring of 1863.
Oates was severely wounded in his 27th battle on August 16, 1864 at Fussel’s Mill which resulted in the loss of his right arm. Despite suffering his sixth wound of the war, Oates once again returned to the army and remained in command of the 48th Alabama until cessation of hostilities.
Apr 16, 2024 · Thereafter, Oates applied himself increasingly to Confederate reunions and to writing a well-received account of the war, The War Between the Union and the Confederacy (1905). Having settled in Montgomery, he died on September 9, 1910, and was buried in the city's Oakwood Cemetery.
May 17, 2017 · Despite the defeat of his regiment at Gettysburg, Oates served the Confederacy for three long and arduous years—from the summer of 1861, when he personally raised a company of men, the Henry Pioneers, in Henry County, Ala.—to August 1864, when the loss of his right arm near Petersburg sent him back home to southeastern Alabama.
Sep 9, 2024 · William Calvin Oates (either November 30 or December 1, 1835 – September 9, 1910) was a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, the 29th Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896, and a brigadier general in the U.S. Army during the Spanish–American War.
Feb 8, 2015 · At the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate States Army and became commander of the 15th Alabama Infantry. By age 17, Pike County, Ala., native William C. Oates had become a...
Nov 30, 2007 · William C. Oates is best remembered as the Confederate officer defeated at Gettysburg's Little Round Top, losing a golden opportunity to turn the Union's flank and win the battle — and perhaps the war. Oates was no moonlight-and-magnolias Southerner, as this book shows.
