George D. Miller

Age 23, he enlisted on 4 August 1862 in Media and mustered as Private, Company D, 124th Pennsylvania Infantry on 9 August in Harrisburg.

He was in action with his Company at Antietam on 17 September 1862:

I still have the blouse, with a half moon out of the front and a large hole in the back. The ball entered above the stomach, coming out between the lower two ribs, cutting the colon, from which it discharged for ten days or so. Dr. Linton, of our company, drew a silk handkerchief through the opening, which was about all that could be done.

... After receiving my wound Comrade Charles Eckfeldt, at my solicitation, helped me off with my belt and knapsack, and as the barrel of his gun had been flattened by a ball, he took mine, and when I left the gutter on the pike, he was firing away, but was never heard of again. His father searched every place: opening graves, etc.

He was treated at a field hospital in the D.R. Miller farmhouse on the battlefield. He later remembered ...

... when I was wounded and saw the hole in the front of my coat, and put my hand to my back, I thought it was all up with me, and for a month it seemed impossible that I could get well, and when I took a turn for the better it was a great disappointment, as I was in hopes I was through my earthly troubles.

Service information from the Register.1 The quotes above and his picture from his own story in the History.2 The hospital detail from Sergeant Broomhall's diary. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

John Banks posted about Miller in 2016 on his Civil War blog.

02/03/1839; Upper Providence, Delaware County, PA

06/21/1919; Philadelphia, PA; burial in Media Cemetery, Media, PA