From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (PIONEERS & PATRIOTS: Anderson County Military Servicemen, Revolutionary War - WWI)
Meyers, Edmond Abraham
(born: c. 1821) Meyers was born a slave in Anderson County, about 1821. He remained a slave into adulthood; President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in states openly hostile toward the Union. Later in the war, however, the government called for the enlistment of colored regiments, and all who answered the call were granted immediate freedom.One of those who chose to become a soldier was Edmond Meyers, who made his way to Camp Nelson to enlist, and on September 9, 1864 he was enrolled as a private in Company M of the 6th U.S. Colored Cavalry Regiment. At that time he testified that he was born in Anderson County, KY about 1821.
Almost immediately the 6th Cavalry was assigned to duty on General Stephen Burbridge's campaign into Southwest Virginia. On this expedition, the regiment was active at the 1st Battle of Saltville fought on October 2, 1864, where after a fierce engagement the Federals were driven back with heavy losses. A good number of Union troops were left behind, wounded on the field, and after falling into Confederate hands were brutally murdered.
In December 1864 the troops of the 6th Colored Cavalry were again on campaign in southwestern Virginia, this time under the command of Major General George Stoneman on his raid, and on December 17-18, 1864 the 6th was engaged at the Battle of Marion, where the Confederate lead mines were captured, and on December 20-21 the Federals captured and destroyed the salt works after the 2nd Battle of Saltville.
After returning from the Stoneman Campaign, the regiment was detailed at various posts throughout Kentucky, seeing duty at and around Camp Nelson. At some point during these campaigns, Myers was wounded and therefore absent from duty while at the hospital recovering until October 5, 1865, when he returned to duty and joined his company, which had since been reassigned to the Department of Arkansas, and remained posted at Helena and DuVall's Bluff until April 15, 1866, when he was mustered from the service.
In 1883, Edmund Myers was a resident of Lawrenceburg; he appears on a list of Anderson County residents receiving a pension, which at that time was a monthly allowance of $4.00 as a result of his partial disability from a gunshot wound to his right shoulder.