Descendants Clement Corbin » Amasa N. Corbin (1820-1862)

Personal data Amasa N. Corbin 

Sources 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7
  • He was born in the year 1820 in Dudley, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.Source 4
  • Census in the year 1850, Scituate, Providence County, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten.
  • (Fact (I)) : Harvey M. Lawson has no information on Amasa. His guess is that thi.
  • (Medical (Facts Pg)) : d.of severe injuries in the civil war.
  • He died on December 24, 1862 in Fredericksburg, Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA, he was 42 years old.Sources 2, 4, 5, 6, 7
    (d. in battle)
  • He is buried in Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.Sources 4, 6, 7
    Amasa N CORBIN
    Birth 1820
    Dudley, Worcester County, Massachusetts, USA
    Death 24 Dec 1862 (aged 41-42)
    Falmouth, Stafford County, Virginia, USA
    Burial
    Clayville Cemetery
    Foster, Providence County, Rhode Island, USA
    Memorial ID 73855411

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    AMASA N. CORBIN. Amasa N. CORBIN was a disheartened man at Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1862. He died there December 24th, and was buried beside a number of the Seventh. He was the father of William CORBIN (spelled Cobbin), the boy who on the battlefield loaded and fired until his ammunition was expended and then secured an additional supply from the dead and seriously wounded, firing from where he loaded. Others loaded their muskets at the rear and then advanced to the front to fire, thus avoiding injury to anyone before them.
    (Clayville Cemetery)
  • A child of Samuel Corbin and Sarah 'Sally' Albee

Household of Amasa N. Corbin

He had a relationship with Betsey Knight Yeaw.


Child(ren):

  1. John Barden Corbin  1857-1902 
  2. Otis Amasa Corbin  1845-1919 
  3. Charles Corbin  1861-1872
  4. Horace Lucian Corbin  1853-1933 
  5. William Henry Corbin  1847-???? 
  6. Mary E. Corbin  1848-1869


Notes about Amasa N. Corbin

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AMASA N. CORBIN. Amasa N. CORBIN was a disheartened man at Fredericksburg, Va., December, 1862. He died there December 24th, and was buried beside a number of the Seventh. He was the father of William CORBIN (spelled Cobbin), the boy who on the battlefield loaded and fired until his ammunition was expended and then secured an additional supply from the dead and seriously wounded, firing from where he loaded. Others loaded their muskets at the rear and then advanced to the front to fire, thus avoiding injury to anyone before them.

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Ancestors (and descendant) of Amasa N. Corbin

Timothy Corbin
1750-1831
Abigail Vinton
1755-1828
Samuel Corbin
1789-????

Amasa N. Corbin
1820-1862


Betsey Knight Yeaw
1829-????

John Barden Corbin
1857-1902
Otis Amasa Corbin
1845-1919
Charles Corbin
1861-1872
Horace Lucian Corbin
1853-1933
William Henry Corbin
1847-????
Mary E. Corbin
1848-1869

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    Sources

    1. U.S., Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934, National Archives and Records Administration, Database online.
      Record for Amasa N Corbin
      / Ancestry.com
    2. History and Genealogy of the Descendants of Clement Corbin of Muddy River (Brookline) Mass. and Woodstock, Conn, Rev. Harvey M. Lawson, Ph.B., B.D., pp. 70-71 #72 Samuel Corbin / Higginson Book Company
    3. U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865, National Park Service, Database online.
      Record for Amasa N. Corbin
      / www.ancestry.com
    4. Web: Rhode Island, Historical Cemetery Commission Index, 1647-2008, Ancestry.com
      Record for Amasa N Corbin
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    5. U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, Historical Data Systems, comp, Database online.
      Record for Amasa N Corbin
      / Ancestry.com
    6. Find A Grave Clayville Cemetery, Foster, Providence, Rhode Island, USA / Find A Grave
    7. Find A Grave Owen-Evans Cemetery, Glocester, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, Ancestry.com, Database online.
      Record for Amasa N Corbin
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    Historical events

    Day of death December 24, 1862

    • The temperature on December 24, 1862 was about 7.1 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. The air pressure was 2.5 kgf/m2 and came mainly from the west-northwest. The airpressure was 77 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 95%. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem III (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1849 till 1890 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • From March 14, 1861 till January 31, 1862 the Netherlands had a cabinet Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt - Loudon with the prime ministers Mr. J.P.P. baron Van Zuijlen van Nijevelt (conservatief-liberaal) and Mr. J. Loudon (liberaal).
    • In The Netherlands , there was from February 1, 1862 to February 10, 1866 the cabinet Thorbecke II, with Mr. J.R. Thorbecke (liberaal) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1862: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 3.6 million citizens.
      • January 19 » American Civil War: Battle of Mill Springs: The Confederacy suffers its first significant defeat in the conflict.
      • April 16 » American Civil War: Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
      • June 6 » American Civil War: Battle of Memphis: Union forces capture Memphis, Tennessee, from the Confederates.
      • July 1 » Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, second daughter of Queen Victoria, marries Prince Louis of Hesse, the future Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse.
      • September 17 » American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
      • November 14 » American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
    

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