Rank: Private
Unit: D Co, 2d Dragoons
Campaign: Second Seminole War
Died: 28 November 1841
Cause of death: Chronic diarrhea
Location of fatality: Mt. Vernon Arsenal, Washington DC,
Place of interment: Saint Augustine National Cemetery in Saint Augustine, Florida
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Note: His older brother died in the Texas Occupation while serving with the 2d Dragoons, PVT George Getz.
Listed in Ponce de Leon Land and Florida War Record … By George M. Brown (1902), page 125 – 67. Getts, Amos G., privt. Co. “D,” died at Mt. Vernon Arsenal November 28, 1841; chronic diarrhea contracted in Florida.