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Amos Gass

Height: 5-3 3/4 Weight: 142, Eyes: Gray, Hair: Dark, Complexion: Light Date enrolled: 10-10-1861 at Danville, Pa. Mustered In: 10-21-1861 at Lebanon, Pa. Co. H  93RD Regiment Pa. Militia Place of Residence: Northumberland County, Pa. Reenlisted: 01-01-1864 at Brandy Station, Va. Promoted to Corporal on 01-01-1865 Wounded: 03-25-1865 at Petersburg, Va. Mustered Out: 06-12-1865. In Hospital when Company was Mustered out. Place of Burial: Pomfret Manor Cemetery, Lot 153 Block 20 Plate 4 B 15, Sunbury.

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Birth: 8 Dec 1842 Place: Northumberland, County, Pennsylvania Married Amelia Alice SAVIDGE


Death: 16 Feb 1908 Place: 330 Vine St., Sunbury, PA., Northumberland County Burial: 19 Feb 1908 Place: Pomfret Manor, Sunbury, PA.,Northumberland County
Source: 1850 U.S. Census Northumberland County 1860 U.S. Census Northumberland County 1880 U.S. Census Northumberland Co. Upper Augusta Twp. Roll #1164 1900 US Census Northumberland Co. Sunbury Roll #1450 ED 160 Sh 18 line

45. Book "History of Columbia Co. from the earliest times" by John G. Freeze.
Department of Veteran Affairs Pa. Death Certificate, Will and Deed records on file Northumberland County Courthouse,

Pension and Military records on file National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Occupation: Farmer Parents place of birth: Pennsylvania Cause of Death: Cerebral Apoplexy Time of Death: 3:00AM Death Certificate informant: Arthur Gordon Gass Age at Death: 65 years 2 months 8 days.

U.S. Pension file
"OFFICERS CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY U.S. Pension file
"OFFICERS CERTIFICATE OF DISABILITY
I Capt. Joseph H Johnson of Company H, of the 93RD Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry certify on honor that Amos Gass was a Corporal in my Company and is, as I am informed, an applicant for an Invalid Pension; that Not Known. and I further certify that the said Amos Gass Company H. 93RD Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was wounded while nobly doing his duty in the battle before Petersburg, VA. on the 25TH day of March 1865, by a Musket Ball in right arm. and that the said Corporal Amos Gass was perfectly sound when he entered the service on September 25TH, 1861." Signed Joseph H. Johnson, Capt.


I Capt. Joseph H Johnson of Company H, of the 93RD Regiment of Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry certify on honor that Amos Gass was a Corporal in my Company and is, as I am informed, an applicant for an Invalid Pension; that Not Known. and I further certify that the said Amos Gass Company H. 93RD Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, was wounded while nobly doing his duty in the battle before Petersburg, VA. on the 25TH day of March 1865, by a Musket Ball in right arm. and that the said Corporal Amos Gass was perfectly sound when he entered the service on September 25TH, 1861." Signed Joseph H. Johnson, Capt.

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