James Woodson Miller

17 year old son of an overseer, from Davie County, he enlisted in Mocksville, NC on 6 August 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company F of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861.

He was "severely" wounded in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was discharged for disability by December 1862.

He enlisted again, in Mocksville on 3 August 1863, and mustered as a Private in Company F, 42nd North Carolina Infantry and was surrendered and paroled with them at Goldsboro, NC on 1 May 1865.

In 1870 he was a farm worker on Jacob Sheek's place at Fulton in Davie County, NC. By 1880 and to at least 1920 he was a carpenter in Winston-Salem, NC.

His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870-1920, and his 1922 Confederate pension application. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Buelah W. Smith (1836-1871) in July 1866 and they had a daughter Mary Beth (1870-1966); her brothers Levi Kitley Smith (1823-1896) and Doctor Franklin Smith (1826-1896) were also soldiers in the 42nd Infantry. He married again, Mary Victoria (?, 1844-1914) in about 1888.

02/11/1845; Davie County, NC

06/27/1933; South Fork, NC; burial in Smith Grove Church Cemetery, Smith Grove, NC