The Biographical Dictionary of America/Amory, Thomas J. C.

AMORY, Thomas J. C, soldier, was born in Massachusetts about 1830. He was graduated from West Point in 1851, afterwards serving in the Utah expedition, and on the frontier from 1851 to 1860. At the outbreak of the civil war, he was made colonel of the 17th Massachusetts volunteers. He took part in the operations in North Carolina, being regularly promoted in the United States army up to the rank of major, which he reached on Sept. 19, 1864, and was brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Oct. 1, 1864. He died of yellow fever in Newberne, N.C., Oct. 8, 1864.