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Federal (USV)

Corporal

Amos M. Travis

(1842 - 1862)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 80th New York Infantry (20th Militia)

Before Antietam

Age 19, he enlisted in Kingston and mustered as Private, Company A, 20th New York State Militia (80th Infantry) on 23 October 1861. He was promoted to Corporal, date not given.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the Smoketown field hospital, but died of wounds on 28 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from the Adjutant General.1 Hospital detail from Nelson.2 His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone says he died on 12 October 1862 at age 20 years, 3 months, and 11 days.

Birth

07/01/1842

Death

09/28/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in Stanford Cemetery, Stanfordville, NY

Notes

1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905, For the Year 1901, Ser. No. 29, pg. 1324 [AotW citation 22606]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 416 [AotW citation 22607]

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