Amos Humiston (April 26, 1830 – July 1, 1863) was a Union soldier who died at the Battle of Gettysburg during the American Civil War.

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" (The Philadelphia Inquirer, October 19, 1863).

[8] Humiston's wife in Portville, New York—who had not received a letter from her husband since the Battle of Gettysburg—responded to the photograph's description in the American Presbyterian of October 29.

[6] The family subsequently resided at the National Homestead at Gettysburg (opened October 1866) for three years until the widow remarried, when they relocated to Massachusetts.

Russell Moore wrote and recorded a song about Humiston, titled "A Picture of Three Children", for the 2013 album God Didn't Choose Sides: Civil War True Stories about Real People.