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Amos Humiston was killed in action during the American Civil War on the Gettysburg Battlefield, dying with his children's image that his wife had mailed to him months earlier. A local girl found the image, and Dr. J. Francis Bournes saw it at her father's tavern and subsequently promoted the File: "wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands…was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children… [It is] desired that all papers in the country will draw attention [so] the family…may come into possession of it" (The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1863).

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  • Amos Humiston
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  • Amos Humiston was killed in action during the American Civil War on the Gettysburg Battlefield, dying with his children's image that his wife had mailed to him months earlier. A local girl found the image, and Dr. J. Francis Bournes saw it at her father's tavern and subsequently promoted the File: "wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands…was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children… [It is] desired that all papers in the country will draw attention [so] the family…may come into possession of it" (The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1863).
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  • Company C, 154th New York
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  • 1862(xsd:integer)
Birth Date
  • 1830-04-26(xsd:date)
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  • Union Army of the Potomac/Infantry Reserves
death place
  • Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Name
  • Amos Humiston
Birth Place
  • Owego, New York
death date
  • 1863-07-01(xsd:date)
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  • Allan Lawrence Cox
  • Children: Franklin, Alice, Frederick
  • Descendants: David H. Kelley &
  • Spouse: Philinda Humiston
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  • Amos Humiston was killed in action during the American Civil War on the Gettysburg Battlefield, dying with his children's image that his wife had mailed to him months earlier. A local girl found the image, and Dr. J. Francis Bournes saw it at her father's tavern and subsequently promoted the File: "wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands…was an ambrotype containing the portraits of three small children… [It is] desired that all papers in the country will draw attention [so] the family…may come into possession of it" (The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1863). Humiston's wife in Portville, New York—who hadn't received a letter from her husband since the Battle of Gettysburg—responded to the photograph description in the American Presbyterian of October 29. She subsequently confirmed the image after Bourns sent her a carte de visite copy of the image. Bourns took the original to her; and the image identification, as well as Bourns' project for an orphans' home at Gettysburg, were publicized. The family subsequently resided at the "National Homestead at Gettysburg" (opened October 1866) for 3 years until the widow remarried, when they relocated to Massachusetts.
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