Scope and Contents Folder includes photos of Asst. Surgeon Howard E. Gates in military uniform - Promoted and mustered Surgeon, 189th N.Y.V., dated Nov. 23, 1864. Other information states - commissioned a surgeon in the Union Army (N.Y. State Volunteers) Aug. 19, 1862. Folder includes other photos of Dr. Gates as a young man and later as a general practioner in Litchfield wearing wire rimmed glasses later in life. Includes photos of Mrs. Howard E. Gates, Dr. Gates mother, Annie Howard Gates - notation states...