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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Jesse E. Amos

(c. 1825 - 1865)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 13th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 35 year old blacksmith at Reidsville in Rockingham County, NC. He enlisted in Lawsonville, NC on 30 May 1861, and he mustered as 4th Sergeant of Company K of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry at Suffolk, VA on 3 June. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was reduced to Private on 26 April 1862 - not reelected Sergeant during the army reorganization.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 28 September and furloughed home for 30 days on 7 October. He was detailed as a blacksmith and wheelwright in government shops in Richmond, VA from 12 December 1862 to 13 July 1864. He probably rejoined his regiment but died of disease near Petersburg, VA on 1 February 1865.

References & notes

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Mariah A. Howard (1823-) in August 1850 and they had 3 children.

Birth

c. 1825 in VA

Death

02/01/1865; Dinwiddie County, VA

Notes

1   Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 505  [AotW citation 33246]

2   US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927  [AotW citation 33247]