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(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 19 year old farmer on his parents' small place at Lexington in Davidson County, NC. He enlsited there on 27 April 1861 and mustered on 6 June at Garysburg, NC as a Private in Captain Willis L Miller's Company, 4th North Carolina Infantry. They were redesignated Company B, 14th North Carolina Infantry in November 1861, and he was promoted to Corporal on 28 April 1862.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded by a gunshot which shattered his pelvis, and by 4 gunshots to his leg in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and he was left on the field and captured there.
The rest of the War
He was treated at a field hospital until 29 September, then admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD. He "failed rapidly" and died there at midnight on 17 October 1862.
References & notes
Burial information from the Mt Olivet burial list,1 which has him as Clarkston W. Myers. Pruitt has him at Hagerstown as Pvt G.W. Myers. His service from the Roster 2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
Birth
c. 1841 in NC
Death
10/17/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 Farino, Greg, and J. Ronald Pearcey, superintendent, Confederate Soldiers buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5125]
2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19190]
3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 32055]
4 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 241 [AotW citation 32056]