Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

Comrade Jacob Myers  



Jacob E. Myers, a member of Speyer Post, Culver, Ind. enlisted February, 1864, in Company D, Forty-eight Indiana Volunteer Infantry. Fifrwwnth Army Corps. Army of Tennesse, Gen. Logan, corps commander. Comrade Myers was with his regiment in the great campaign that led up to the seige of Atlanta, and after the fall of that southern capital, in the grand all-conquering march to the sea, which was followed by the sweep of victory up the Atlantic coast to Raliegh, N. C., where the final stroke was given to the death of the fast falling confederacy. Comrade Myers was in the service 18 months.