M. H. Vanwinkle
Co. E, 111 N. York Reg.
Left leg Amputated above the Knee
Wayne Co., N. York
Town of Williamson

[Myron H. Vanwinkle (1836-1863) — Co. E, 111th New York. Age 26. 1860 Census has him listed in Williamson, NY as a farm laborer with a wife (Rhoda Elizabeth) and 11 month-old child (Phillip). Another child (Elizabeth E) born on same day he enlisted, 20 Aug. 1862. Attended Genesee Wesleyan Seminary in 1854. Gunshot fracture of the left leg (amputated) 3 July. Died of wounds on 27 July and buried on Jacob Swartz farm.  Disinterred to SNC, Row A, No. 72, New York Plot.]

Unidentified Newspaper notice (in Ancestry):

Myron, son of John Van Winkle, died in the 2nd Corps hospital, Gettysburg, Pa., July 29th, 1863, in the 29th year of his age.

While this gigantic and wicked rebellion was aiming a death blow at our national Government and free institutions, among the thousands who freely offered themselves to avert so great a calamity was Myron Van Winkle. Bidding adieu to his parents, wife and children, he went forth with the 111th New York S. V.  The gallant 111th had been but a short time, comparatively, in service, before being called to act their part in the memorable battle of Gettysburg. And yet their conduct upon that bloody field was more like that of veterans than volunteers. The subject of this notion was wounded in one of his limbs, on the 3d of July, so severely that amputation was necessary, and on the 4th the operation was performed. For a time he seemed to be doing well, and none were more hopeful or cheerful than he. Visiting the hospital a few days before his death, the chaplain of the regiment said to the writer, “None bore the wound or the amputation, better than Van Winkle; and for days after the amputation, he was not only cheerful himself, but did much for the encouragement of the wounded lying with his in the tent.” But suddenly and unexpectedly a change came. His system relapsed into a typhoid state, from which he never recovered. And on the 29th of July, 1863, he breathed his last, leaving his deeply afflicted parents, wife, and children to mourn his loss. His body is interred in the National Cemetery at Gettysburg and the visitors to this city of the dead may find [him] in the New York lot, Section A, No. 75, the spot of earth which contains his remains.

George E. Haven,
Avon, May 18, 1864