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Federal (USV)

Private

Adam Myers

(c. 1839 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 130th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 22, he enlisted at Cheltenham, PA on 6 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company C, 130th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his face breaking both jaws in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at a 3rd Division, 2nd Corps field hospital (possibly on the Otho Smith Farm) near the battlefield then sent to the Walnut Street Hospital in Harrisburg, PA on 20 September. Infection set in on 24 September, all treatments failed, and he died there on 29 September 1862.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Wound and hospital details from the MSHWR.3

Birth

c. 1839

Death

09/29/1862; Harrisburg, PA

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11290]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 31411]

3 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 1, p. 351 [AotW citation 31412]

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