Amos Moore

In 1860 he was a 17 year old farmer living with his widowed mother and 6 siblings at Mount Clifton, Shenandoah County, VA. He enlisted as a Private in Company G, 33rd Virginia Infantry on 10 August 1862 at Camp Garnet near Rich Mountain, Randolph County, VA. He was slightly wounded by a gunshot to his left hip at 2nd Manassas on 28 August 1862.

He was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was absent, recovering, until MArch 1863. He was wounded for the third time, in the shoulder, at Milroy, VA on 15 June and captured afterward (one Federal record lists this as happening at Gettysburg, PA). He was in the DeCamp General Hospital in New York Harbor in July 1863, exchanged and in a hospital in Petersburg in September, and was furloughed home on the 22nd - "almost minus an arm and with a federal military coat which had the buttons and skirt cut off."

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer near Mt Jackson in Shenandoah County, VA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and his war memories published in The Shenandoah Valley of 7 March 1907, online from the Virginia GenWeb Project. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha J Tusing (1841-1932) in July 1876 and they had 10 children.

04/07/1843; Shenandoah County, VA

05/12/1908; Mount Jackson, VA; burial in Grace United Church of Christ Cemetery, Mount Jackson, VA