OBIT: George Myers, 1913, York, York County, PA

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Veteran Wounded at Antietam Dead

George Myers, who was rescued among dying soldiers on the battlefield of Antietam during the 
Civil war, died Tuesday at his home in York.  Mr. Myers was sick for several years, but the 
decline in health that resulted in his death set in last July.  The cause of death was 
influenza.  The deceased was eighty-one years of age.  Private Myers served his enlistment in 
the Civil war with Company K, One Hundred and Thirteenth regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers.  On 
September 17, 1862, during the battle of Antietam he was shot through the lung and he was found 
in a dying condition between two dead comrades.  Army surgeons removed him to the regimental 
hospital and saved his life.

The Hanover Herald – Saturday, February 1, 1913