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J.D. Myrick
(1836 - 1882)
Home State: Maine
Education: Harvard University (AB 1858),
Harvard Law School, Class of 1860
Branch of Service: Cavalry
Unit: 1st Maine Cavalry
Before Antietam
In 1860 he was a 24 year old lawyer living with his parents and 2 younger siblings in Augusta, ME. He had served in the University Guards in Cambridge, MA from April to September 1861 and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Company K, First Maine Cavalry on 2 November 1861.
On the Campaign
He was with his Company on the Maryland Campaign of September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to First Lieutenant in December 1862 and Captain on 28 August 1863. In March 1865 he was honored by brevet to Major for his service at Dinwiddie Court House, VA, and he mustered out on 1 August 1865.
After the War
He was appointed First Lieutenant, 10th United States Cavalry on 7 March 1867, was brevetted Captain later that year, fought Indians in Kansas, and resigned on 17 May 1872.
By 1880 he was a druggist, owner of his father-in-law's (former) business, the Fuller drug store in Augusta, and was Maine State Librarian.
References & notes
His service from the Adjutant General,1 Heitman,2 and Henry.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860 and 1880, and Charles Warren's History of the Harvard Law School (Vol. III, 1908). His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph at the Maine Historical Society.
He married Paulina Jones Fuller (1838-1921) and they had a daughter Eliza (1868-1906).
Birth
03/02/1836; Augusta, ME
Death
12/27/1882; Augusta, ME; burial in Forest Grove Cemetery, Augusta, ME
1 State of Maine, Adjutant General's Office, and John L. Hodsdon, AG, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Maine for the Year ending December 31, 1862, Augusta: Stevens and Sayward, Printers to the State, 1863 [AotW citation 28854]
2 Heitman, Francis Bernard, Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army 1789-1903, 2 volumes, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1903, Vol. 1, pg. 740 [AotW citation 28855]
3 Henry, Guy Vernor, Military Record of Civilian Appointments in the United States Army, 2 Volumes, New York: D. Van Nostrand, 1873, Vol. 1, pp. 173-174 [AotW citation 28856]