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Federal (USV)

Private

Abraham R. Myers

(1844 - 1915)

Home State: Rhode Island

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Rhode Island Infantry

Before Antietam

He enlisted in Providence on 19 September 1861 in Company K, 4th Rhode Island Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was captured in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.

The rest of the War

He was paroled and sent to Alexandria, VA in November 1864. He reenlisted on 5 February 1864, and transferred (consolidated) into Company B, 7th Rhode Island Infantry on 21 October 1864. He mustered out on 13 July 1865.

References & notes

Basic information from Dyer1. Life dates from his gravesite on Findagrave.

Birth

1844

Death

1915; burial in North Burial Ground, Bristol, RI

Notes

1 Dyer, Elisha, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations for the Year 1865 (corrected), 2 Volumes, Providence: E.L. Freeman & Son, 1893, Vol. 1, pp. 297, 396 [AotW citation 14090]

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