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"Harry"
(c. 1838 - c. 1905)
Home State: Pennsylvania
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 88th Pennsylvania Infantry
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
He was mustered in as 1st Lieutenant of Company C, and was elected Adjutant of the 3-month 7th Pennsylvania Infantry, and served with them from April into July 1861. He then mustered as Captain of Company B, 88th Pennsylvania Infantry in August 1861.
On the Campaign
He was at Antietam on 17 September 1862, and
During the engagement Major [Lieutenant Colonel] George W. Gile was badly wounded in the leg, and the command devolved upon Captain H. R. Myers.
The rest of the War
He resigned his commission on 1 November 1862.
After the War
He was in Reading, PA, then was in Philadelphia by 1869, where he ran a printing business with his brother (former Colonel) John C Myers, then they moved to a farm near Omaha, NE.
References & notes
His service basics from the Bates1 and Vautier.2 The quote above from his after-action report. Personal details from the Reading, PA Times of 7 October 1869.
He married the widow Catherine Wealis O'Malley (1844-1927) in May 1878 in Douglas County, NE and they had at least one child; Myers adopted her 6 children from her previous marriage.
Birth
c. 1838; Berks County, PA
Death
c. 1905; Saint James, NE
1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 31904]
2 Vautier, John D., History of the 88th Pennsylvania Volunteers in the War for the Union, 1861-1865, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1894, p. 237 [AotW citation 31905]