KC's Adventure through HIST 390

In class this week we received the files of the soldiers we are going to be working on for the rest of the semester for our project. I received Pvt Morris Coats from Co A of the 136th New York. He spent most of his life in Wirt, New York where he was married to Adeline Smith and had three children, 2 boys and a daughter. He enlisted at the age of 36 and finished out his 3 year commitment even though he was injured in the Battle of Peach Tree Creek where he suffered slight damage to his arm and chin. He continued his occupation as a farmer up until the final year of his life when he died in March of 1911. I look forward to learning more about where Pvt Coats ventured in his three years of service.