James Myers was a resident of Mansfield on December 27, 1864 when he enlisted as a Private in Co. F of the 1^st Regiment Connecticut Volunteer Heavy Artillery; he was turned over to the Provost Marshalls of the Army of the Potomac as a deserter from the 2^nd New York Artillery.

He was not living in Mansfield in the 1860 U.S. census; no further information is known.