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(1823 - 1898)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Education: Pennsylvania College, Medical Department, Class of 1844
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry
Before Antietam
Son of prominent Philadelphia doctor Jesse W. Griffiths, he applied to be a Cadet at the US Military Academy in June 1839 at age 16, but was not appointed. He later earned an MD of his own and by 1860 was also a physician in Philadelphia.
He enrolled and mustered as Lieutenant Colonel of the 8th Pennsylvania Cavalry on 22 August 1861.
On the Campaign
He commanded the regiment in Maryland.
The rest of the War
He was discharged on 18 February 1863.
After the War
In 1870 he was a retired physician in Philadelphia, but appears to have been practicing again by 1880.
References & notes
His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His command at Antietam from Carman.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, Harold J. Abrahams' Extinct Medical Schools of Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia in the journal Transactions and Studies of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (July 1964), and the US Military Academy Cadet Application Papers at the National Archives, online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave, as Amos E Griffth.
Birth
1823
Death
11/14/1898; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Woodlands Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 29531]
2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 29532]
3 Carman, Ezra Ayers, and Dr. Thomas G. Clemens, editor, The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, 3 volumes, El Dorado Hills (CA): Savas Beatie, 2010-17, Vol. II, pg. 541 [AotW citation 29533]