Excerpt from Congressional Directory: Compiled for the Use of Congress William C. Oates, of Abbeville, was born in Pike (now Bullock) County, Alabama, NO vember 30, 1835; was self-educated; studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1858, and became a successful lawyer and business man; entered the Confederate Army as Captain of Company G, Fifteenth Alabama Infantry, in July, 1861; was appointed Colonel in the Pro visional Army of the Confederate States, on account of fair fighting capacity, May 1, 1863, and was assigned to the command of his old regiment; the Forty-eighth Alabama Regiment was also subsequently placed under his command; was wounded four times slightly and twice severely, losing his right arm in front of Richmond August 16, 1864, in the twenty-seventh battle he was enagaged in; was a Delegate to the National Democratic Convention held in New York in 1868 which nominated Seymour for the Presidency; was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives, and Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means at the sessions of 1870 and 1871 was an unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor in 1872; was, later in the same year, nominated for Congress in the Montgomery district and defeated by the Republican condidate; was a member of the Con stitutional Convention in 187 5 and Chairman of its Jhdiciary Committee; was elected to the Forty-seventh Congress, and was te-elected to the Forty-eighth Congress as a Democrat, receiving votes against votes for Millen, Republican, and 6 scattering.
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