Bits of military info:
National Park Service Civil War Soldiers and Sailors system:
Gatewood, Pinkney: Union; Co A & I, 6 TN Cav; Rank in and out- Private, film M392 Roll 5

1890 Veterans Schedule, District 6, Weakley Co, TN
House 84, famly 85, Private CO C, 7th TN Infantry, 1862-Dec 20, 1862, served 6 months, Dresden Post Office, Note: Captured, Parolled, released.

Pinkney Gatewood, PVT, I CO, 6th CAV Federal  [served with 1st Cousin Calvin O. Gatewood)

Pinkney Gatewood, WE-224-1, PVT C CO, 7th TN INF

Adutant General Office: Enrolled as Pinkney Gatewood, Co A, 7th Tenn Inf subsequently 1 West Tenn Inf and afterwards Co I, 6th Tenn Cav

Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records: Gatewood, Pinkney, 7th Reg't, Tenn, Co I: Captured at Trenton, Tenn Dec 20, 1862. Paroled at Trenton, Tenn, Dec 20 1862, no later record.

Company Description Book: age 21, height 6' 1 1/4", complexion- dark, hair- dark, born Weakley Co, occupation- farmer, when- 23 Aug,1862, where - Dresden, by Lt Arbuckle. 

Submitted by Chris Gatewood Bean