Francis P Miller

(? - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Command Billet: Commanding Regiment
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 21st North Carolina Infantry

Before the Antietam Campaign:
He was a carpenter in his 20's at the 1860 census of Forsyth County. He was Captain of Company K, as they enlisted at Winston 11 June 1861. He may have been promoted (but not commissioned) Major in the regiment prior to Sharpsburg 1.

In the Antietam Campaign:
He was at Harpers Ferry, and killed at Sharpsburg on the 17th while in command of the Regiment as senior officer present.

Death Date: 09/17/1862 Death Place: Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 2, pg. 201 [AotW citation 1010]

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