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Confederate (CSV)

Sergeant

Francis Marion Myers

"Frank"

(1843 - 1862)

Home State: Mississippi

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 16th Mississippi Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old on his parents' prosperous farm at Utica in Hinds County, MS. He enlisted 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He reenlisted in April 1862 and was promoted to 5th Sergeant on 27 June.

On the Campaign

He was killed in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. He is also in a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862, as J.W. Myers. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

12/23/1843; Duke, MS

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD; burial in McClellan Cemetery, Duke, MS

Notes

1 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 29609]

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