Private, Company E, 1st Regiment, Tennessee Cavalry; this company subsequently became Company F, 5th Regiment (McKenzie's), Tennessee Cavalry, CSA

Names of parents provided by Linda Ford Sharp, Contributor 49161446. I am unable to verity.

Listed in Cocke County, Tennessee, in the 1850 federal census:
Luis Cates, 23, born Tennessee, farmer
Rachel Cates, 23, born North Carolina
Isaac Cates, 3, born Tennessee
Mary J Cates, 2, born Tennessee
Hannah Cates, 2 months, born Tennessee

Listed in Taylersburg PO, District 8, Cocke County, Tennessee, in the 1860 federal census:
Lewis Cates, 33, farmer
Rachael Cates, 33
Isaac Cates, 14
Mary J Cates, 11
John R Cates, 4

Lewis Cates, age 35, enlisted on December 31, 1861, at Newport. He was listed at home on sick furlough in Company E muster roll for January and February 1862. He died of pneumonia on March 5, 1862, in Cocke County, Tennessee.

State of Tennessee
Cocke County
On this 5" day of January 1863 personally appeared before me the Subscriber a Justice of the Peace in and for said County Rachel Cates who after being sworn according to case deposes and says that she is the widow of Lewis Cates deceased who was a private in Captain Thos S Gormans company of Col John C MLins Regiment of Tennessee mounted volunteers — in the service of the Confederate States in the present war with the United States, and that the said Lewis Cates entered the service at Newport in the County of Cocke Tennessee on or about the 24" day of December 1861. and died at his residence in said county of Cocke on the 5th day of March 1862, leaving her widowed Rachel Cates and three children the oldest about 16 years of age and the youngest about 6 years of age. That Rachel Cates makes this deposition for the purpose of obtaining from the Government of the Confederate States whatever may have been due the said Lewis Cates at the time of his death for pay bounty or other allowance for his service as a private aforesaid
Rachel her X mark Cates
Sworn to & subscribed before me
John Ford J. P.