Charles H. Myerhoff

Of German-born parents, he was orphaned in 1858 and in 1860 was a 19 year old working in the Armstrong Furniture factory in Evansville, IN, where his brother John was foreman. He enlisted and mustered in Terra Haute, IN on 7 June 1861 as a Corporal in Company E, 14th Indiana Infantry. He was promoted to Sergeant, date not found.

He was with his company at Antietam on 17 September 1862 and may have been at least briefly missing in action there.

He was appointed First Lieutenant on 4 May 1863 and was wounded at Cold Harbor, VA on 3 June 1864. He was in the New Hallowell General Hospital (3rd Division Hospital) at Alexandria, VA when he was mustered out with his company on 24 June 1864. After recovering, he was clerk to Philip Decker (late Evansville store owner), sutler of the Tenth Tennessee Infantry (US) at Nashville, to the end of the war.

By 1866 and to at least 1887 he was a bookkeeper in Evansville, IN and by 1892 and to at least 1910 he was partner in Kahn, Myerhoff & Company, proprietors of the Evansville Stove Works.

His service basics from the Adjutant General,1 His presence at Antietam from a casualty list in the Indianapolis Sentinel of 27 September 1862, which says he was killed there. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910, and a bio sketch in Brant & Fuller's History of Vanderburgh County Illustrated (1889). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Jennie Sharra/Sharn (1844-1924) in December 1867 and they had 2 children.

03/11/1842; Cincinnati, OH

10/24/1919; Evansville, IN; burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, IN