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D. Myers
(1831 - 1862)
Home State: New York
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
By 1855 he was a merchant in Brooklyn, NY, and was appointed Fist Lieutenant in the 14th NY (Brooklyn) Militia in September 1857. He was commissioned First Lieutenant, Company C of the 84th NY Infantry as they entered Federal service on 23 May 1861 in Brooklyn, NY, then age 29. He was promoted to Captain on 1 July 1861.
On the Campaign
He was mortally wounded in the leg and chest in action on 17 September 1862 at Antietam.
The rest of the War
He died of wounds at a field hospital in the town hall in Keedysville, MD on 25 September 1862.
References & notes
His service information from the State of New York.1 Hospital detail from a list in the New York Times of 12 October 1862. Personal details from a bio sketch from Green-Wood Cemetery. His gravesite is on Findagrave. The picture here from a faded photograph in the collection of the New York Military Museum available online through the New York Heritage portal.
Birth
1831; Red Hook, NY
Death
09/25/1862; Keedysville, MD; burial in Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY
1 State of New York, Adjutant-General, Annual Report of the Adjutant General of the State of New York [year]: Registers of the [units], 43 Volumes, Albany: James B. Lyon, State Printer, 1893-1905 [AotW citation 6295]