During the American Civil War, Amos served as an interpreter in John W. Pierce's 1st Choctaw Battalion and in Samuel G. Spann's Independent Scouts.

His family moved to the Indian village called Chunky Chitto when he was an infant.

He engaged in all their time-honored customs, games and dances, believed in all their superstitions and participated in everything the Indian called pleasure and dissipation.

In his more than mature manhood he became a convert to the Christian religion and a preacher of righteousness to his fallen race.

He is reverenced and respected by his people and will be missed when he is gone.Amos served in Pierce's 1st Choctaw Battalion and later Spann's Independent Scouts.

I must not omit to say, however, that with a like valor and zeal Elder [Jackson], another full-blood Indian soldier, proved equal to the emergency.

According to census and pension data, Amos resided with Thomas J. Reynolds and Evan S. Gilbert.

He is of the Choctaw tribe, and belonged to a heroic band of red men who gave splendid aid to the Confederacy, and who suffered much as a result of their loyalty to the Southern cause.

He is an attractive figure among the reunion visitors, and, while well advanced in years, is entering into the spirit of the occasion with a fine enthusiasm.

The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was agreed to and signed by leaders of the Choctaws in September 1830.

Article 14 allowed any member of the tribe to remain in Mississippi, become a citizen of the United States, and given 640 acres of land.

Federal authorities failed to implement article 14 properly leaving tribal members landless.