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Federal (USV)

Private

William H. Myers

(c. 1824 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 125th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

At age 38 he enlisted in Altoona, PA on 26 July and he mustered as a Private in Company K, 125th Pennsylvania Infantry on 13 August 1862 in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was reported missing in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was probably discharged for disability in 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Company muster-out roll, via Ancestry.com.

Birth

c. 1824

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, Vol. IV, pp. 125 - 126  [AotW citation 1402]