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Federal (USV)

Private

Samuel T. Mills

(c. 1841 - ?)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 128th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 21, he enlisted in Doylestown on 8 August 1862 and mustered as Private, Company H, 128th Pennsylvania Infantry on 15 August in Harrisburg.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the hand in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was treated at the hospital at Camp Curtin near Harrisburg, PA and mustered out with his Company on 19 May 1863.

References & notes

Service information from Bates1 and the Register,2 as Samuel P. Miller. Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3

Birth

c. 1841

Notes

1   Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871  [AotW citation 23977]

2   Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant General's Office, Register of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-1865, 16 volumes, Harrisburg  [AotW citation 23978]

3   Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 323  [AotW citation 23979]