John Lucas Miller

He was a lawyer in the York District, served a term in the State House of Representatives 1860-61, and owned and edited the Yorkville Enquirer. He recruited and was elected Captain of Company B, 12th South Carolina Infantry in August 1861. He was wounded at Gaines' Mill, VA in June 1862.

He led his Company and was slightly wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was appointed Major of the regiment to date from 27 September 1862 after Major McCorkle resigned for health reasons. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in February 1863 and commanded the regiment at Gettysburg in July. He was promoted to Colonel, probably in November when Colonel Davis resigned. He was mortally wounded in the bowels in action in the Wilderness, VA on 5 May 1864 and died the next day.

His service from the Roll,1 his Compiled Service Records, and Caldwell.2 His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the Yorkville Enquirer of 8 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists, the 1860 US Census, the The Semi-centennial Catalogue of Davidson College (1891), and Bruce Allardice's Colonels.3 His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married well, the wealthy Mary Green Sadler (1834-1888), in 1854, and they had 5 children.

He was a cousin of wartime diarist Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut; his uncle Stephen Decatur Miller's daughter.

09/05/1829; Ebenezer, SC

05/06/1864; the Wilderness, Spotsylvania County, VA; burial in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA