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Confederate (CSA)

Lieutenant

Cadmus Marion Amoss

(c. 1838 - 1862)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Son of a prosperous merchant, from La Grange in Troup County, he enlisted at about age 23 at Decatur in De Kalb County, GA and mustered as First Sergeant of Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry on 5 August 1861. He was elected 2nd Lieutenant to date from 18 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in the chest and captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died in US 6th Army Corps field hospital at Burkittsville, MD on 27 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1850. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1838 in GA

Death

09/27/1862; Burkittsville, MD

Notes

1 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 33655]

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