. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . een has not fully recovered from the effects of this unfortunatedisability. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. MYEKS, Son of John F. and Maria Myers, wasborn at Cortland, Cortland county,N. T., December twenty-fifth, received an academical educationat the Cortlandville academy, and atthe age of sixteen, commenced tolear
. History of the Seventy-sixth regiment New York volunteers; what it endured and accomplished; containing descriptions of its twenty-five battles; its marches; its camp and bivouac scenes; with biographical sketches of fifty-three officers and a complete record of the enlisted men . een has not fully recovered from the effects of this unfortunatedisability. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM H. MYEKS, Son of John F. and Maria Myers, wasborn at Cortland, Cortland county,N. T., December twenty-fifth, received an academical educationat the Cortlandville academy, and atthe age of sixteen, commenced tolearn the carpenters trade of hisfather. The firing upon Fort Sum-ter, and the assault upon the Massa-chusetts men in Baltimore arousedhis young spirit, and he determinedto enter Company H, Twenty-thirdRegiment New York volunteers,raised in Cortland in the early sum-mer of 1861; but from this he wasdissuaded by his friends. When the attempt was made to raise the Seventy-sixthhe immediately joined with his companions. He enlisted as private, and at theorganization of the company, was made Corporal. He was soon after promotedto Sergeant, and filled successively the different non-commissioned offices of hiscompany, and Sergeant-Major of the Regiment, and was finally commissioned as. Lieutenant William II. Myees. 397 Lieutenant, with fair prospects of promotion, had he not been captured and de-tained from duty in Southern prisons. He participated in the battlee of Rappa-hannock Station, Warrenton Springs, Gainesville, Bull Run, Soutli Mountain,Antietam, First and Second Frederisksburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and theWilderness. In the latter battle, May fifth, 1*64, he was captured in the skirmishline, with his entire company (F) and two other companies of the Seventy-sixth,(see pages 284 to 289). The first day of our Lieutenants captivity was extremelysultry ; but he was, with about thirty officers and seven hundred men, marchedtwenty-five miles, suffering severely from fatigue a
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