Thanks for posting, Julie. I didn't have any Bates with the Yankees, but I had one in the 13th Mississippi Volunteers. I did have an ancestor with the Yankees. In the 4th Cavalry, Missouri State Militia but he was Thomas Jefferson Cooper. You were lucky with your pension file. I found no such family info for my Confederae, Thomas A. Bates. His record was part of the "reconstructed" set authorized about 1912 by the government. There was precious little left of the official Confederate records by that time so it is amazing that they were able to put together partial service records which consisted mainly of muster rolls and mentions of wounded in action, "sent to hospital" etc. But it is certainly worth the effort to try for any military service or pension record, or "bounty" lists. The state of Missouri offered some bounty but I never was able to find out if it was cash or land. Thanks again for your thoughtful posting. Jack Bates