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With the rank of second lieutenant, Cadet John D. Myers was sent from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington, Va., to report to General Garnett, then in camp at Laurel Hill, in Barbour County, Va. (now West Virginia), as drillmaster in the month of June, 1861. This was his first military service. In the spring of 1862 he enlisted in the 4th Regiment of Virginia Volunteer Infantry, a part of the celebrated Stonewall Brigade. He served with distinction in this command until the capture of Harper's Ferry, September 15, 1862, when he was transferred to Company C, 1st Virginia Cavalry, and remained with it, rendering faithful service, until the close of the war. After the war he studied medicine and graduated from the Medical Department of the University of Virginia and located in the city of Huntington, W. Va., for the practice of his profession. He built up a lucrative practice and won the respect and esteem of all who knew him. He was a devout Christian, and for many years he served as a ruling elder in the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. His death came peacefully, after a long prostration from a stroke of paralysis, on the 2d of May, 1915. Capt. J. F. Hartigan, of Camp Garnett, No. 902, U. C. V., was detailed to accompany the remains and the stricken family to Lexington, Va., the home of his childhood, where he was buried in the family plot in the Presbyterian Cemetery, The Camp mourns the loss of one of its most distinguished and valued comrades.
SOURCE: Confederate Veteran Magazine, July, 1915.
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