Amos McLemore (August 23, 1823 – October 5, 1863) of Jones County, Mississippi, was a schoolteacher, Methodist Episcopal minister, merchant and Confederate States Army soldier.
[3] The name means "son of a servant or devotee of the Virgin Mary" and originated among the Celto-Norse people (Norse-Gaels) who populated the lands bordering the Irish and Hebridean seas.
Nevertheless, once invasion from the North seemed inevitable McLemore volunteered to raise a company for the Confederate States Army.
It was mustered into Confederate service in Ellisville as Company B, 27th Mississippi Infantry Regiment, on September 10, 1861, with Mclemore as its Captain.
In spite of pre-War opposition to secession and the number of "transient deserters", the activities of such formerly anti-secessionist individuals as McLemore, according to historian (and descendant of McLemore) Rudy H. Leverett, along with the facts "that virtually every able-bodied man in the county was on active duty in organizations such as those commanded by McLemore … and that the Union raiding party entering the county in June 1863 was captured by civilians, and the Union prisoners had to be protected from the local citizens" present evidence that the citizens of Jones County were loyal to the Confederacy.