Maybe someone can use this information that I abstracted while at the National Archives several years ago. These were some BATES (definately not all of them) who applied for a pension for their service in the Union Army after the Civil War, or their widows applied for the pension. Sometimes a minor child was listed on the index card. These records, and others for UNION CIVIL WAR SERVICE ONLY, can be ordered from the National Archives. Ordering info should be on their website. Confederate States provided their veterans with a pension on a STATE level, so they should be ordered from the state in which the soldier later lived. The National Archives does not have these. The file of my BATES ancestor contained a lot of great information, and was quite thick. He had to prove that he was disabled or feeble enough to deserve a pension, so affidavits were in there from friends and relatives, telling how long they'd known him, how old he was, etc.... There's no telling what you'll find! SOME BATES WHO RECEIVED PENSION FOR SERVICE IN THE UNION ARMY DURING THE CIVIL WAR (I apologize for any mistakes herein) Name & Regt Widow Minor Date Applied and Where JAMES BATES Co D 4th ARK Cav Francis R. Bates Ira M. Foskit 1890 ARK 1901 ARK 1902 ARK JAMES M. BATES Co E 8th MO Sarah J. Bates 1916 ARK JAMES S. BATES Co F 129 ILL Inf Quintilla Bates 1884 ARK 1907 ARK JOHN BATES Co A 138 USC Inf 1891 ARK STEPHEN W. BATES Co G IND Inf Leona Bates 1916 1927 ARK SAMUEL N. BATES Co I 4th ARK Cav Susannah Bates Eliz. J. Smock 1865 ARK 1874 ARK JOHN C. BATES Co A, 1st ARK Inf 1890 ARK ROBERT E. BATES Co A, 1st ARK Inf 1890 ARK PINCKNEY BATES Co G 5th USV Inf Malinda M. Bates 1908 ARK JOHN P. BATES 47th MO Inf Sallie J. Bates 1898 ARK 1904 TX CHARLES H. BATES 3rd WIS Cav & ILL Inf Elizabeth Bates 1891 ARK 1920 ARK BERRY BATES Co B/G 5th TN Mtd Inf Elizabeth Bates 1910 ARK 1923 ARK BENJAMIN F. BATES Co D 1st ARK Inf Martha A. Bates James C. Bates 1885 1890 ARK ALBERT J. BATES Co I 72nd OH Inf Nancy Ellen Bates 1869 1912 ARK AARON M. BATES Co M 30th US Inf 1929 ARK