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(1843 - 1933)
Home State: Ohio
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 8th Ohio Infantry
Before Antietam
Son of a wealthy land broker, in 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents, 5 siblings, and maternal grandmother (Esther Carswell Hurd) in Sandusky, OH. He enlisted as a Private in Company E, 8th Ohio Infantry on 1 December 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862
by a musket ball, which entered the abdomen in front, at the left lumbar region, a little below the floating ribs; the exit was one half inch left of the spine and nearly on line with the point of entrance; the descending colon was wounded.
The rest of the War
He was initially treated at a field hospital on the Roulette farm by his regiment's Assistant Surgeon S. Sexton, who noted
Young Mills was of a bouyant, undespairing disposition, and when first seen, soon after he fell, I was impressed by the absence of shock and consequent depression usually manifest in these case; he remained under my care for 5 days ...He was transferred to a private home near Boonsboro, MD under the treatment of local physician Dr. Otho I Smith and was also nursed by his mother, his "recovery was considered doubtful for several weeks." He was discharged on 20 November (or December) 1862 for disability and taken home to Sandusky, OH in mid-December, though his external wounds took 6 months to close.
After the War
In May 1868 his health was reported to be good, though he had to avoid certain foods that caused gas. By 1870 and to at least 1880, by then a store clerk, he was again living with his parents and siblings in Sandusky. He was still there at the 1890 US Veteran's Census.
References & notes
Birth
12/28/1843; Sandusky, OH
Death
02/23/1933; Flint, MI; burial in Clinton Grove Cemetery, Clinton Township, MI
1 State of Ohio, Roster Commission, Official Roster of the Soldiers of the State of Ohio in the War of the Rebellion, 1861-1866, 12 Volumes, Akron: The Werner Company, 1893-95, Vol. 2, pp. 244 - 249 [AotW citation 14733]
2 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 2, p. 78-79 [AotW citation 31587]