Description
Treasury Department document issued to Sardis Otis, the brother of Amos Otis, for the bounty which was owed to Amos. In August of 1862, Amos would muster with the 146th New York Infantry, also known as the “Garrard’s Tiger’s”. Following the costly Chancellorsville campaign, the 146th would begin it’s arduous march towards Gettysburg beginning on June, 11th. Amos would fall ill shortly after and would by admitted to a hospital on the 13th of June. Records state that he lay in a Washington D.C. hospital, however he would succumb to disease on July 1st and is buried in the Gettysburg National Cemetery in grave E-107 NY. Sardis would receive his brother’s bounty on his behalf in the amount of $101. 86.
