R. G. Yates, 34, Private, Alexander Yate’s Company (Dixie Guards**), 36th Regiment Mississippi Volunteers,* enlisted March 7, 1862 at Meridian, Miss. for 12 months, re-enlisted for 3 years or the war, May, 1862, promoted 1st Lieutenant June 10, 1862, promoted Captain December 14, 1862, slightly wounded in action at Corinth, near Farmington, Miss. May 9, 1863, severely wounded, in trenches at Vicksburg, Miss. July 1, captured at Vicksburg, Miss. July 4, 1863, paroled July 15, 1863, wounded at Altoona, Georgia October 5, 1864, paroled at Jackson, Miss, May 15, 1865

* This company subsequently became Company K, 36th Regiment Mississippi Infantry

** From Copiah County, Mississippi

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Mississippi