JAMES and AMOS WINTERS -- 124th INFANTRYTWO MOOERS BROTHERS IN THE 124th - In September 1864, two sons of John Winters and Harriet Reynolds, Amos and James, enlisted in the 124th Infantry. Both received town bounties of \$600 and county bounties of \$300. James was twice as old as his brother. He was 36 at the time of his enlistment and Amos was only 18. Both were millwrights.They, and 16 other men were recruited that fall to replace men lost from the regiment. The 124th was very hard hit at Chancellorsville in 1862 only 2 months after they left New York. They sustained over 200 casualties and since that time it had suffered double-digit casualties in many of its engagements as well as losing men to disease, disability and desertion. When the regiment finally mustered out in June 1865, they had only 225 of the original 1,300+ men who went away to war.There were only 3 engagements left in 1864, when the brothers got to the field in Virginia -- Poplar Spring Church, Boydton Plank Road and the Hicksford Raid in December. By December, Amos was in hospital at City Point and was transferred to a hospital in Washington from where he was mustered out on June 7, 1865. He was mustered out by General Order 77 of the War Department that said men should be sent home, if possible, to recover.James continued with the regiment and was with them on the Appomattox Campaign which ended with Lee's surrender to Grant on April 9, 1865. During that campaign, just two weeks before the end of the war, the 124th suffered 32 casualties including 9 deaths. He was mustered out on June 3, 1865.\In the Mooers Town Clerk's Records of 1865, Amos stated he was in the Battle at Hatcher's Run and was in the Welden Raid. He gave his address as Woods Falls. A year after he got home, he married Sarah Bull from Elizabethtown. They moved to Lowell, MA, where he died 1918 and was buried in the Edson Cemetery with Sarah, who died in 1912.James reported to the Mooers Town Clerk that he had been on the picket line before Petersburg, at Hatcher's Run and at Clover Hill. He and Lavinia Corkins, his wife, lived in Mooers Forks and he died there in 1916. He was buried in the Union Cemetery there.
