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Federal (USV)

Private

Aaron Miller

(1838 - 1862)

Home State: Pennsylvania

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 96th Pennsylvania Infantry

Before Antietam

In 1860 he was a 22 year old living with inn keeper George Reiner and family in Porter Township, Schuylkill County, PA. He mustered on 9 October 1861 as a Private in Company H, 96th Pennsylvania Infantry.

On the Campaign

He was mortally wounded in action at Crampton’s Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He died of wounds in a field hospital in Burkittsville, MD on 30 September 1862.

References & notes

His burial from the Antietam Cemetery History,1 with service basics from Bates.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Jeremiah was also mortally wounded at Crampton's Gap.

Birth

01/06/1838; Tower City, PA

Death

09/30/1862; Burkittsville, MD; burial in Antietam National Cemetery, Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Antietam National Cemetery, Board of Trustees, History of Antietam National Cemetery, Baltimore: John W. Woods, Steam Printer, 1869 [AotW citation 3924]

2 Bates, Samuel Penniman, History of the Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-65, Harrisburg: State of Pennsylvania, 1868-1871, 96th Infantry [AotW citation 15363]

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