William Calvin Oates (either November 30 or December 1, 1833 – September 9, 1910) was a Confederate colonel during the American Civil War. He became a brigadier general in 1898, and also fought in the Spanish–American War.
In between he was a Democratic member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1870 to 1872, a member of the United States House of Representatives for Alabama from 1881 to 1894, and Governor of Alabama from 1894 to 1896.
William C. Oates was born in Pike County, Alabama. He studied law and passed the bar examination, opening a practice in Abbeville. Oates died in Montgomery, Alabama, and was buried there in Oakwood Cemetery.
- William C. Oates, The War Between the Union and the Confederacy, The Neale Publishing Company, 1905.
- Glenn W. LaFantasie, Gettysburg Requiem: The Life of William C. Oates, Oxford University Press, 2005.
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| Confederate leaders |
Robert E. Lee • E. Porter Alexander • Richard H. Anderson • George T. Anderson • James J. Archer • Lewis Addison Armistead • William Barksdale • Henry L. Benning • John M. Brockenbrough • John R. Chambliss • Junius Daniel • Jefferson Davis • Joseph R. Davis • George P. Doles • Jubal A. Early • Richard S. Ewell • Richard B. Garnett • John Brown Gordon • Wade Hampton III • Harry T. Hays • Henry Heth • A. P. Hill • John B. Hood • Benjamin G. Humphreys • John D. Imboden • Alfred Iverson, Jr. • Albert G. Jenkins • Allegheny Johnson • John M. Jones • William E. Jones • James L. Kemper • Joseph B. Kershaw • James H. Lane • Evander M. Law • Fitzhugh Lee • Rooney Lee • James Longstreet • William Mahone • James K. Marshall • Lafayette McLaws • Edward A. O'Neal • William C. Oates • W. Dorsey Pender • J. Johnston Pettigrew • Abner Perrin • George E. Pickett • Carnot Posey • Stephen Dodson Ramseur • Jerome B. Robertson • Robert E. Rodes • Alfred Moore Scales • Paul Jones Semmes • William "Extra Billy" Smith • George H. Steuart • J. E. B. Stuart • Edward L. Thomas • Isaac R. Trimble • James A. Walker • R. Lindsay Walker • Cadmus M. Wilcox • William T. Wofford • Ambrose R. Wright
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| Union leaders |
George G. Meade • Adelbert Ames • Romeyn B. Ayres • Francis C. Barlow • James Barnes • Henry Baxter • David B. Birney • John Buford • John C. Caldwell • Charles Candy • Joshua L. Chamberlain • Edward E. Cross • Andrew Gregg Curtin • George A. Custer • Lysander Cutler • Samuel W. Crawford • Abner Doubleday • Edward Everett • Elon J. Farnsworth • John W. Geary • John Gibbon • Leopold von Gilsa • Charles K. Graham • George S. Greene • David McMurtrie Gregg • Winfield S. Hancock • William Harrow • Alexander Hays • Joseph Hooker • Oliver O. Howard • Andrew A. Humphreys • Henry J. Hunt • Judson Kilpatrick • Wlodzimierz Krzyzanowski • Abraham Lincoln • Solomon Meredith • Wesley Merritt • John Newton • Gabriel Rene Paul • Alfred Pleasonton • John F. Reynolds • John C. Robinson • Thomas A. Rowley • Thomas H. Ruger • Alexander Schimmelfennig • Carl Schurz • John Sedgwick • Daniel Sickles • Henry W. Slocum • George J. Stannard • Adolph von Steinwehr • George Sykes • Robert O. Tyler • Strong Vincent • James S. Wadsworth • J. H. Hobart Ward • Gouverneur K. Warren • Stephen Weed • Alexander S. Webb • Alpheus S. Williams • Samuel K. Zook
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| Other notable military characters |
Russell A. Alger • Isaac E. Avery • Laurence S. Baker • Hiram Berdan • Alexander Biddle • John R. Brooke • Goode Bryan • Henry K. Burgwyn • George C. Burling • Samuel S. Carroll • Thomas H. Carter • Thomas Chamberlain • William Colvill • Father William Corby • Charles Coster • James Dearing • Thomas Devin • Augustus van Horne Ellis • Richard Enderlin • Arthur Fremantle • Birkett D. Fry • William Gamble • Archibald C. Godwin • John Irvin Gregg • Bryan Grimes • Norman J. Hall • Henry Thomas Harrison • Frank A. Haskell • Horatio Stockton Howell • Amos Humiston • Harrison Jeffords • Marcellus Jones • Patrick Kelly • David Lang • Joseph W. Latimer • William G. Lewis • William McCandless • Archibald L. McDougall • George F. McFarland • John Baillie McIntosh • Robert M. Mayo • Edward D. Muhlenberg • Patrick O'Rorke • Ario Pardee, Jr. • William R. J. Pegram • Abner Perrin • William T. Poague • Edward S. Salomon • Orland Smith • Moxley Sorrel • Ellis Spear • Roy Stone • Walter H. Taylor • Traveller (horse) • Régis de Trobriand • Charles S. Wainwright • George Hull Ward |
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| Local civilians |
John L. Burns • Abraham Bryan • David McConaughy • Moses McClean • Edward McPherson • Ginnie Wade • David Wills |
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