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Federal (USV)

Private

Jacob Meyers

(c. 1839 - ?)

Home State: New York

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 42nd New York Infantry

Before Antietam

A 22 year old weaver, he enlisted on 2 July 1861 in New York City, and mustered in as a Private in Company I, 42nd New York Infantry on 6 July. He transferred to Company C on 11 October 1861.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the left leg in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated in a field hospital on the Susan Hoffman farm at Sharpsburg and was absent, recovering, to at least August 1863. He was discharged for disability on 17 May 1864 at Portsmouth Grove, RI.

References & notes

His service from the State of New York1 and his Muster Roll Extract in the NY State Archives, via fold3. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.2

Birth

c. 1839 in GERMANY

Notes

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, Issue 23 (for the year 1900) [AotW citation 8563]

2 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, p. 321 [AotW citation 30096]

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