13 Facts About Abraham Myers

Abraham Myers was a military officer in the United States and Confederate States Armies.

Abraham Charles Myers was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, on 14 May 1811.

Abraham Myers was accepted to the United States Military Academy on 1 July 1828; after repeating his freshman year, he graduated on 1 July 1833.

Abraham Myers received a promotion to full second lieutenant on 31 December 1835 before serving in the Second Seminole War.

From 1848 to 1861, Abraham Myers served the Quartermaster Department at various posts, mostly in the Southern United States.

On 16 Mar 1861, Abraham Myers was appointed a lieutenant-colonel in the Confederate Quartermaster-General's Department.

Abraham Myers was made the Confederacy's first acting quartermaster-general on 25 March 1861; the role was made official that December, with a promotion to colonel on 15 Feb 1862.

Abraham Myers was ousted as quartermaster-general around the turn of 1864.

Rosen goes on to say that Abraham Myers refused to serve under Lawton, and though the Confederate States Attorney General opined that Abraham Myers was not in the army any longer, he himself maintained that "he was a colonel and a commissioned officer and remained on the army list".

Bruce Allardice's 2008 book Confederate Colonels concurs with much of the Rosen's analysis, though merely says that Abraham Myers resigned on 10 August 1863.

In 1864 and 1865, Abraham Myers lived in the state of Georgia, "almost in want, on the charity of friends".

The United States Marine Corps History Division reported that Abraham Myers' son, John Twiggs Abraham Myers, was born in the Imperial German city of Wiesbaden on 29 January 1871, and that the family returned to the US in 1876.

Abraham Myers died in Washington, DC, on 20 or 28 June 1889.