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(1841 - 1919)
Home State: Georgia
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 13th Georgia Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker on his parent's place near Dawson in Terrell County, GA. He enlisted as a Private in Company H, 13th Georgia Infantry on 4 March 1862 in Dawson.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was on furlough from 26 September to 26 November 1862 and was listed as a deserter from a hospital in Richmond, VA on 9 January 1863. He was back with his Company by August 1864 but was in a Lychburg, VA hospital by December 1864. He was furloughed on 1 February 1865 with no later military record.
After the War
In 1900 he was a farmer in Spencer, Thomas County, GA.
References & notes
His service from Henderson,1 as H.M. Miller, and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His stone provided by the US Government in 1932, thanks to application by his daughter Alma and the Pelham chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy.
He married Mary Alice Wills (1841-) in May 1861 and they had a son, George. He married again, the widow Mary Agatha Jane Lee McCall (1846-1930) in 1885 and they had 2 children.
Birth
10/29/1841; Stewart County, GA
Death
01/19/1919; burial in Pelham City Cemetery, Pelham, GA
1 Henderson, Lilian, compiler, Roster of the Confederate Soldiers of Georgia, 1861-1865, 6 vols., Hapeville (GA): Longino & Porter, 1959-1964 [AotW citation 7301]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 28337]