Jacob Amon

Company D, 10th Michigan Infantry

Born in Switzerland, Jacob immigrated to Canada and then to Lexington, Michigan where he enlisted on November 28, 1861. He received an eye injury at Stevenson, Alabama on September 11, 1863 and was hospitalized for three months. Jacob reenlisted on February 6, 1864 at Rossville, Georgia, remaining qith the regiment until war's end. After the war he was granted a pension of $8.00 per month. He died in Speaker Twp., Michigan in 1891, almost totally blind from his wartime injury.injury