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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:25.5em;border-spacing:2px;"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%; background-color:#C3D6EF;color:inherit;"><div style="display:inline-block" class="fn">Amos Humiston</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image" style="border-bottom: 1px solid #aaa;; line-height: 1.5em"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Humiston.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cd/Humiston.jpg/220px-Humiston.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="183" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Humiston.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="310" data-file-height="258" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1830-04-26</span>)</span>April 26, 1830<br /><a href="/wiki/Owego,_New_York" title="Owego, New York">Owego, New York</a>, US<sup id="cite_ref-Dunkelman1999_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunkelman1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 2">: 2 </span></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 1, 1863<span style="display:none">(1863-07-01)</span> (aged 33)<br /><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a>, US<br /><span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output 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id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="label"><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Cemetery" title="Gettysburg National Cemetery">Gettysburg National Cemetery</a><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Allegiance</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Service <wbr />/ branch</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Years of service</th><td class="infobox-data">1862–1863</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Rank</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Sergeant#United_States" title="Sergeant">Sergeant</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Unit</th><td class="infobox-data">Company C, <a href="/wiki/154th_New_York_Volunteer_Infantry" class="mw-redirect" title="154th New York Volunteer Infantry">154th New York Volunteer Infantry</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Battles / wars</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville" title="Battle of Chancellorsville">Chancellorsville</a> (<a href="/wiki/Wounded_in_action" title="Wounded in action"><abbr title="Wounded in action">WIA</abbr></a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Gettysburg</a> <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman','Old English Text MT',serif"><b>†</b></span></a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="padding-right: 1em">Relations</th><td class="infobox-data">Spouse: Philinda Humiston<br /><span class="nowrap">Children: Franklin, Alice, Frederick<sup id="cite_ref-Morris_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morris-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span><br />Descendants: <a href="/wiki/David_H._Kelley" title="David H. Kelley">David H. Kelley</a><sup id="cite_ref-Morris_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morris-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> &<br />     Allan Lawrence Cox<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Amos Humiston</b> (April 26, 1830 – July 1, 1863) was a <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union</a> soldier who died at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a> during the <a href="/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">American Civil War</a>. A photograph of his children that was found with his body led to his identification when it was described in newspapers across the country. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Civil_War">Civil War</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amos_Humiston&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Civil War"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humiston served in the <a href="/wiki/Union_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Union Army">Union Army</a> during the American Civil War. He was wounded at the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Chancellorsville" title="Battle of Chancellorsville">Battle of Chancellorsville</a> in May 1863. He was later <a href="/wiki/Killed_in_action" title="Killed in action">killed in action</a> on the <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_Battlefield#Borough_areas_of_military_engagements" title="Gettysburg Battlefield">Gettysburg Battlefield</a>, dying with a photograph of his three children that his wife had mailed to him months earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-Reef_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reef-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 69">: 69 </span></sup> A local girl found the image, and Dr. John Francis Bourns saw it at the girl's father's tavern and subsequently publicized the image in an effort to identify the anonymous soldier who had been carrying it. Though the image itself was not reproduced, it was described in detail in newspapers across the country:<sup id="cite_ref-Dunkelman_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunkelman-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "wounded, he had laid himself down to die. In his hands … was an <a href="/wiki/Ambrotype" title="Ambrotype">ambrotype</a> containing the portraits of three small children … two boys and a girl ... nine, seven and five years of age, the boys being respectively the oldest and youngest of the three. The youngest boy is sitting in a high chair, and on each side of him are his brother and sister. The eldest boy's jacket is made from the same material as his sister's dress ... [It is] desired that all papers in the country will draw attention [so] the family … may come into possession of it" (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i>, October 19, 1863).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Franklin,_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg/200px-Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="173" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg/300px-Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/86/Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg/400px-Franklin%2C_Alice_and_Frederick_Humiston.jpg 2x" data-file-width="533" data-file-height="462" /></a><figcaption>Image used to identify Humiston</figcaption></figure> <p>Humiston's wife in <a href="/wiki/Portville_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Portville (town), New York">Portville, New York</a>—who had not received a letter from her husband since the <a href="/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg" title="Battle of Gettysburg">Battle of Gettysburg</a>—responded to the photograph's description in the <i><a href="/wiki/American_Presbyterian" class="mw-redirect" title="American Presbyterian">American Presbyterian</a></i> of October 29. She subsequently confirmed the image was of her children<sup id="cite_ref-Reef_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reef-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> after Bourns sent her a <i><a href="/wiki/Carte_de_visite" title="Carte de visite">carte de visite</a></i> copy of the ambrotype.<sup id="cite_ref-Morris_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Morris-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Bourns took the original image to Humiston's widow.<sup id="cite_ref-Reef_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reef-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The family subsequently resided at the <a href="/wiki/National_Homestead_at_Gettysburg" title="National Homestead at Gettysburg">National Homestead at Gettysburg</a> (opened October 1866) for three years until the widow remarried, when they relocated to Massachusetts.<sup id="cite_ref-Reef_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reef-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup class="reference nowrap"><span title="Page / location: 70">: 70 </span></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historiography">Historiography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amos_Humiston&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Historiography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>After numerous postbellum retellings and a 1993 memorial regarding the story at <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Gettysburg, Pennsylvania">Gettysburg, Pennsylvania</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> historian <a href="/wiki/Mark_H._Dunkelman" title="Mark H. Dunkelman">Mark H. Dunkelman</a> published Humiston's 1999 biography using Humiston's war letters—including a May 1863 poem of how Humiston missed his family.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunkelman1999_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunkelman1999-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-entry{display:table-row;font-size:85%;line-height:110%;height:1.9em;font-style:italic;font-weight:bold}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-image{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em;vertical-align:middle;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .portalbox-link{display:table-cell;padding:0.2em 0.2em 0.2em 0.3em;vertical-align:middle}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .portalleft{clear:left;float:left;margin:0.5em 1em 0.5em 0}.mw-parser-output .portalright{clear:right;float:right;margin:0.5em 0 0.5em 1em}}</style><ul role="navigation" aria-label="Portals" class="noprint portalbox portalborder portalright"> <li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/28px-P_vip.svg.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/41px-P_vip.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/P_vip.svg/55px-P_vip.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1911" data-file-height="1944" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:Biography" title="Portal:Biography">Biography portal</a></span></li><li class="portalbox-entry"><span class="portalbox-image"><span class="mw-image-border noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png/28px-United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png" decoding="async" width="28" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png/42px-United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6b/United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png/56px-United_states_confederate_flag_hybrid.png 2x" data-file-width="1875" data-file-height="1875" /></span></span></span><span class="portalbox-link"><a href="/wiki/Portal:American_Civil_War" title="Portal:American Civil War">American Civil War portal</a></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amos_Humiston&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: In popular culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Humiston's service at Gettysburg is dramatized in the 2011 documentary film <i><a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_(2011_film)" title="Gettysburg (2011 film)">Gettysburg</a></i>. </p><p>In the 2012 film <i><a href="/wiki/Abraham_Lincoln:_Vampire_Hunter" title="Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter">Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter</a></i>, a Federal unit, presumably the 154th New York Volunteer Infantry, is attacked by Confederate vampires and only one member survives. A photograph falls out of a soldier's hand and falls to the ground near the camera. It is the same one that Sergeant Humiston carried. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Russell_Moore_and_IIIrd_Tyme_Out" title="Russell Moore and IIIrd Tyme Out">Russell Moore</a> wrote and recorded a song about Humiston, titled "A Picture of Three Children", for the 2013 album <i>God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War True Stories about Real People</i>. <sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Amos_Humiston&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 35em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Dunkelman1999-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Dunkelman1999_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Dunkelman1999_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFDunkelman1999" class="citation book cs1">Dunkelman, Mark H. (1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=bC7gNo0mmrsC&q=humiston+gettysburg+graves&pg=PA155"><i>Gettysburg's Unknown Soldier: The Life, Death, and Celebrity of Amos Humiston</i></a>. Greenwood Publishing Group. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-275-96294-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-275-96294-6"><bdi>0-275-96294-6</bdi></a>. <a href="/wiki/LCCN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="LCCN (identifier)">LCCN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://lccn.loc.gov/98-40342">98-40342</a>. <q><i>The American Presbyterian revealed the identification<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="margin-left:0.1em; white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Please_clarify" title="Wikipedia:Please clarify"><span title="The text near this tag may need clarification or removal of jargon. (August 2011)">clarification needed</span></a></i>]</sup> of Amos Humiston on November 19 ... </i>[Humiston]<i> rested in his unknown's grave on Judge Samuel Russell's lot. ... the Gettysburg Compiler carried the story of the identification on November 30</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Gettysburg%27s+Unknown+Soldier%3A+The+Life%2C+Death%2C+and+Celebrity+of+Amos+Humiston&rft.pub=Greenwood+Publishing+Group&rft.date=1999&rft_id=info%3Alccn%2F98-40342&rft.isbn=0-275-96294-6&rft.aulast=Dunkelman&rft.aufirst=Mark+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DbC7gNo0mmrsC%26q%3Dhumiston%2Bgettysburg%2Bgraves%26pg%3DPA155&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span> (The lot of the "Hon. S. R. Russell" was used for <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_College" title="Gettysburg College">Pennsylvania College</a>'s 1887 <a href="/w/index.php?title=Glatfelter_Hall&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Glatfelter Hall (page does not exist)">Glatfelter Hall</a>.)<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ilQmAAAAIBAJ&sjid=JgAGAAAAIBAJ&pg=1646,6385126&dq=round-top-park+1887&hl=en">[1]</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSwain2009" class="citation web cs1">Swain, Craig (April 14, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=17964">"Amos Humiston"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(HMdb.org webpage, marker 17964)</span><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-08-31</span></span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Amos+Humiston&rft.date=2009-04-14&rft.aulast=Swain&rft.aufirst=Craig&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hmdb.org%2Fmarker.asp%3Fmarker%3D17964&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMaj._Gen._O.O._Howard1867" class="citation book cs1">Maj. Gen. O.O. Howard (1867). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=N3MmMWsnGTwC&pg=PA69">"List of Names"</a>. <i>Revised Report Made to the Legislature of Pennsylvania, <a href="/wiki/Gettysburg_National_Cemetery" title="Gettysburg National Cemetery">Soldier's National Cemetery</a>, at Gettysburg</i>. <a href="/wiki/Harrisburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Harrisburg, Pennsylvania">Harrisburg, Pennsylvania</a>: Singerly & Myers, State Printers. p. 69<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2015-01-17</span></span>. <q><i>Sergt. Amos Hummiston</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=List+of+Names&rft.btitle=Revised+Report+Made+to+the+Legislature+of+Pennsylvania%2C+Soldier%27s+National+Cemetery%2C+at+Gettysburg&rft.place=Harrisburg%2C+Pennsylvania&rft.pages=69&rft.pub=Singerly+%26+Myers%2C+State+Printers&rft.date=1867&rft.au=Maj.+Gen.+O.O.+Howard&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DN3MmMWsnGTwC%26pg%3DPA69&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span> [sic].</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Morris-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Morris_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Morris_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Morris_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMorris2009" class="citation web cs1"><a href="/wiki/Errol_Morris" title="Errol Morris">Morris, Errol</a> (March 29 – April 2, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/whose-father-was-he-part-one/">"Whose Father Was He?"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <q><i>Within a few days the ambrotype came into the possession of Benjamin Schriver, a tavern keeper in the small town of <a href="/wiki/Graefenburg,_Pennsylvania" title="Graefenburg, Pennsylvania">Graeffenburg</a>,</i>[sic]<i> about 13 miles west of Gettysburg. … Four men on their way to Gettysburg were forced to stop at Schriver's Tavern when their wagon broke down. They heard the tale of the fallen soldier and saw the photograph of the children. One of them, Dr. J. Francis Bourns,</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Whose+Father+Was+He%3F&rft.date=2009-03-29%2F2009-04-02&rft.aulast=Morris&rft.aufirst=Errol&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fmorris.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F03%2F29%2Fwhose-father-was-he-part-one%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged September 2011">dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.thirdfridaywine.com/sample-page/">Third Friday Wine website entry</a><sup class="noprint Inline-Template"><span style="white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Link_rot" title="Wikipedia:Link rot"><span title=" Dead link tagged July 2017">permanent dead link</span></a></i><span style="visibility:hidden; color:transparent; padding-left:2px">‍</span>]</span></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Reef-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Reef_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Reef_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Reef_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Reef_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFReef2005" class="citation book cs1">Reef, Catharine (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=-e7eH2BttnEC&pg=PA69"><i>Alone in the World: Orphans and Orphanages in America</i></a>. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0618356703" title="Special:BookSources/0618356703"><bdi>0618356703</bdi></a>. <q><i>read the account in November 1863 </i>[and suspected they were]<i> their children, Frank, Alice, and Fred, ages eight, six, and four.</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Alone+in+the+World%3A+Orphans+and+Orphanages+in+America&rft.pub=Houghton+Mifflin+Harcourt&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=0618356703&rft.aulast=Reef&rft.aufirst=Catharine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D-e7eH2BttnEC%26pg%3DPA69&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Dunkelman-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Dunkelman_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080316115834/http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/american_civil_war/3026901.html">"Amos Humiston: Union Soldier Who Died at the Battle of Gettysburg"</a>. HistoryNet.com. June 12, 2006. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.historynet.com/wars_conflicts/american_civil_war/3026901.html">the original</a> on 2008-03-16<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2011-08-31</span></span>. <q><i>After seeing to it during his stay in Gettysburg that the soldier's grave was well marked, Dr. Bourns returned to his Philadelphia home, where he put his </i>[publicity]<i> plan into action. </i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Amos+Humiston%3A+Union+Soldier+Who+Died+at+the+Battle+of+Gettysburg&rft.pub=HistoryNet.com&rft.date=2006-06-12&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.historynet.com%2Fwars_conflicts%2Famerican_civil_war%2F3026901.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Whose Father Was He?". <i><a href="/wiki/The_Philadelphia_Inquirer" title="The Philadelphia Inquirer">The Philadelphia Inquirer</a></i>. October 19, 1863. <q><i>"The children, two boys and a girl, are, apparently, nine, seven, and five [</i><a href="/wiki/Sic" title="Sic">sic</a><i>] years of age… The youngest boy is sitting in a high chair, and on each side of him are his brother and sister. The eldest boy's jacket is made from the same material as his sister's dress."</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Philadelphia+Inquirer&rft.atitle=Whose+Father+Was+He%3F&rft.date=1863-10-19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span> (quoted by Morris)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080131115210/http://www.brotherswar.com/Gettysburg-1u.htm">"The Children of the Battlefield"</a>. <i>The Battle of Gettysburg - Wednesday, July 1, 1863</i>. BrothersWar.com. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.brotherswar.com/Gettysburg-1u.htm">the original</a> on 2008-01-31<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">2008-02-11</span></span>. <q><i>This modest marker rests upon the site where, several days later, a Gettysburg civilian found a then anonymous Union soldier</i></q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Battle+of+Gettysburg+-+Wednesday%2C+July+1%2C+1863&rft.atitle=The+Children+of+the+Battlefield&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brotherswar.com%2FGettysburg-1u.htm&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AAmos+Humiston" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://hvbluegrass.org/review-god-didnt-choose-sides-vol-i/">"Review: God Didn't Choose Sides, Vol I – Hudson Valley Bluegrass 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Lee">Lee</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Porter_Alexander" title="Edward Porter Alexander">Alexander</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_H._Anderson_(general)" title="Richard H. Anderson (general)">R. Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_T._Anderson" title="George T. Anderson">G. Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_J._Archer" title="James J. Archer">Archer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Addison_Armistead" class="mw-redirect" title="Lewis Addison Armistead">Armistead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barksdale" title="William Barksdale">Barksdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_L._Benning" title="Henry L. Benning">Benning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Brockenbrough" title="John M. Brockenbrough">Brockenbrough</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_R._Chambliss" title="John R. Chambliss">Chambliss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Junius_Daniel" title="Junius Daniel">Daniel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_R._Davis" title="Joseph R. Davis">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_P._Doles" title="George P. Doles">Doles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jubal_Early" title="Jubal Early">Early</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_S._Ewell" title="Richard S. Ewell">Ewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_B._Garnett" title="Richard B. Garnett">Garnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_B._Gordon" title="John B. Gordon">Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wade_Hampton_III" title="Wade Hampton III">Hampton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_T._Hays" title="Harry T. Hays">Hays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Heth" title="Henry Heth">Heth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._P._Hill" title="A. P. Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bell_Hood" title="John Bell Hood">Hood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benjamin_G._Humphreys" title="Benjamin G. Humphreys">Humphreys</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_D._Imboden" title="John D. Imboden">Imboden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Iverson_Jr." title="Alfred Iverson Jr.">Iverson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_G._Jenkins" title="Albert G. Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Johnson_(general)" title="Edward Johnson (general)">Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_M._Jones" title="John M. Jones">J. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_E._Jones_(general)" title="William E. Jones (general)">W. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_L._Kemper" title="James L. Kemper">Kemper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_B._Kershaw" title="Joseph B. Kershaw">Kershaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Henry_Lane_(Confederate_general)" title="James Henry Lane (Confederate general)">Lane</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evander_M._Law" title="Evander M. Law">Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fitzhugh_Lee" title="Fitzhugh Lee">F. Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Henry_Fitzhugh_Lee" class="mw-redirect" title="William Henry Fitzhugh Lee">W. 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Johnston Pettigrew">Pettigrew</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abner_Monroe_Perrin" title="Abner Monroe Perrin">Perrin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pickett" title="George Pickett">Pickett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carnot_Posey" title="Carnot Posey">Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Dodson_Ramseur" title="Stephen Dodson Ramseur">Ramseur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerome_B._Robertson" title="Jerome B. Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Rodes" title="Robert E. Rodes">Rodes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Moore_Scales" title="Alfred Moore Scales">Scales</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Jones_Semmes" title="Paul Jones Semmes">Semmes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Smith_(Virginia_governor)" title="William Smith (Virginia governor)">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_H._Steuart_(brigadier_general)" title="George H. Steuart (brigadier general)">G. Steuart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._E._B._Stuart" title="J. E. B. Stuart">J. E. B. 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Wright">Wright</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%;background-color:#DCDCDC;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Union_(American_Civil_War)" title="Union (American Civil War)">Union</a> leaders</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/George_Meade" title="George Meade">Meade</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adelbert_Ames" title="Adelbert Ames">Ames</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romeyn_B._Ayres" title="Romeyn B. Ayres">Ayres</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_C._Barlow" title="Francis C. Barlow">Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Barnes_(general)" title="James Barnes (general)">Barnes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Baxter" title="Henry Baxter">Baxter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chapman_Biddle" title="Chapman Biddle">Biddle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_B._Birney" title="David B. 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Cross">Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Gregg_Curtin" title="Andrew Gregg Curtin">Curtin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Cushing" title="Alonzo Cushing">Cushing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Armstrong_Custer" title="George Armstrong Custer">Custer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lysander_Cutler" title="Lysander Cutler">Cutler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_W._Crawford" title="Samuel W. Crawford">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abner_Doubleday" title="Abner Doubleday">Doubleday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elon_J._Farnsworth" title="Elon J. Farnsworth">Farnsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Geary" title="John W. Geary">Geary</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Gibbon" title="John Gibbon">Gibbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leopold_von_Gilsa" title="Leopold von Gilsa">Gilsa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_K._Graham" title="Charles K. Graham">Graham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_S._Greene" title="George S. Greene">Greene</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_McMurtrie_Gregg" title="David McMurtrie Gregg">Gregg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Winfield_Scott_Hancock" title="Winfield Scott Hancock">Hancock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Harrow" title="William Harrow">Harrow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Hays" title="Alexander Hays">Hays</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Hooker" title="Joseph Hooker">Hooker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Otis_Howard" title="Oliver Otis Howard">Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_A._Humphreys" title="Andrew A. 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Starr">Starr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolph_von_Steinwehr" title="Adolph von Steinwehr">Steinwehr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Sykes" title="George Sykes">Sykes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_S._Tilton" title="William S. Tilton">Tilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_O._Tyler" title="Robert O. Tyler">Tyler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Strong_Vincent" title="Strong Vincent">Vincent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_S._Wadsworth" title="James S. Wadsworth">Wadsworth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._H._Hobart_Ward" title="J. H. Hobart Ward">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gouverneur_K._Warren" title="Gouverneur K. Warren">Warren</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_H._Weed" title="Stephen H. Weed">Weed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_S._Webb" title="Alexander S. Webb">Webb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_L._Willard" title="George L. Willard">Willard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alpheus_S._Williams" title="Alpheus S. 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