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Federal (USV)

Private

Jeremiah Miller

(1839 - 1863)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 19 year old living with his laborer father and 4 siblings in Porter Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He enlsited there on 21 September 1861 and mustered into service as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry on 23 September.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded by a gunshot to his side in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 3 October, also suffering from typhoid fever, and died there on 2 January 1863. He was originally buried in Frederick.

After the War

He was reinterred in the new National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

His service basics from Bates1 and the Card File.2 Burial details from the History,3 which has him in Company H, 69th New York Infantry. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.4 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

03/25/1839; Tower City, PA

Death

01/02/1863; Frederick, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871 [AotW citation 11907]

2 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Adjutant-General, Pennsylvania Civil War Veterans' Card File, 1861-1866, Published <2005, first accessed 01 July 2005, <http://www.digitalarchives.state.pa.us/archive.asp?view=ArchiveIndexes&ArchiveID=17> [AotW citation 30990]

3 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3929]

4 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #315 [AotW citation 30991]

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