The son of John & Eleanor (Hummer) Myers, in 1860 he was a teacher living in York, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unreported age at Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered into federal service that day as 2nd lieutenant of Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-three in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 13 as a captain of Co. E, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 13, 1864, in York. He was the regiment's only officer to hold the same rank throughout his service. Well respected, he was frequently detached for recruiting and court-martial details and during it all maintained a diary now housed at the York County History Center.
He married Margaret A. Orwig December 8, 1872, but they apparently had no children or at least none who survived. During his post-war years, he served as a justice of the peace and was a musical instrument merchant. He died from stomach cancer at the reported age of 57-6-0, a member of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. The is an entry in the error-plagued Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Card that misidentifies him as an older non-veteran of the same name buried in Red Mount Cemetery, but there is also a correct entry for him.
On July 14, 1890, Margaret applied for a widow's pension and received it.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unreported age at Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered into federal service that day as 2nd lieutenant of Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-three in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 13 as a captain of Co. E, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 13, 1864, in York. He was the regiment's only officer to hold the same rank throughout his service. Well respected, he was frequently detached for recruiting and court-martial details and during it all maintained a diary now housed at the York County History Center.
He married Margaret A. Orwig December 8, 1872, but they apparently had no children or at least none who survived. During his post-war years, he served as a justice of the peace and was a musical instrument merchant. He died from stomach cancer at the reported age of 57-6-0, a member of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. The is an entry in the error-plagued Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Card that misidentifies him as an older non-veteran of the same name buried in Red Mount Cemetery, but there is also a correct entry for him.
On July 14, 1890, Margaret applied for a widow's pension and received it.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
The son of John & Eleanor (Hummer) Myers, in 1860 he was a teacher living in York, York County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 10" tall and had dark hair and hazel eyes.
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unreported age at Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered into federal service that day as 2nd lieutenant of Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-three in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 13 as a captain of Co. E, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 13, 1864, in York. He was the regiment's only officer to hold the same rank throughout his service. Well respected, he was frequently detached for recruiting and court-martial details and during it all maintained a diary now housed at the York County History Center.
He married Margaret A. Orwig December 8, 1872, but they apparently had no children or at least none who survived. During his post-war years, he served as a justice of the peace and was a musical instrument merchant. He died from stomach cancer at the reported age of 57-6-0, a member of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. The is an entry in the error-plagued Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Card that misidentifies him as an older non-veteran of the same name buried in Red Mount Cemetery, but there is also a correct entry for him.
On July 14, 1890, Margaret applied for a widow's pension and received it.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
A Civil War veteran, he served two terms of service:
1. Enlisted at an unreported age at Harrisburg April 20, 1861, mustered into federal service that day as 2nd lieutenant of Co. A, 16th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged with his company July 30, 1861.
2. Enlisted at the stated age of thirty-three in York August 24, 1861, mustered into federal service there September 13 as a captain of Co. E, 87th Pennsylvania Infantry, and honorably discharged at term's end October 13, 1864, in York. He was the regiment's only officer to hold the same rank throughout his service. Well respected, he was frequently detached for recruiting and court-martial details and during it all maintained a diary now housed at the York County History Center.
He married Margaret A. Orwig December 8, 1872, but they apparently had no children or at least none who survived. During his post-war years, he served as a justice of the peace and was a musical instrument merchant. He died from stomach cancer at the reported age of 57-6-0, a member of Sedgwick Post No. 37, G.A.R. The is an entry in the error-plagued Pennsylvania Veterans Burial Card that misidentifies him as an older non-veteran of the same name buried in Red Mount Cemetery, but there is also a correct entry for him.
On July 14, 1890, Margaret applied for a widow's pension and received it.
Contributor: Dennis Brandt (47232334)
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