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Federal (USV)

Private

John R. Miller

(c. 1844 - 1862)

Home State: Ohio

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 87th Ohio Infantry

Before Antietam

Age 18, he enlisted and mustered as Corporal, Company D, 87th Ohio Infantry on 10 June 1862.

On the Campaign

He was admitted to a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD on 16 September 1862 for Phthisis (pulmonary tuberculosis) and died there on the 18th.

After the War

He was originally buried in Frederick but was reinterred in the new Antietam National Cemetery in about 1867.

References & notes

Burial information from the Antietam Cemetery History1. His service from the Roster.2 Hospital details from the Patient List.3

Birth

c. 1844

Death

09/18/1862; Frederick, 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 3932]

2 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. 7, pg. 9 [AotW citation 22419]

3 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, and Terry Reimer, Frederick Patient List, Published 2018, first accessed 17 September 2018, <http://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/frederickpatient/>, Source page: patient #4.132 [AotW citation 22420]

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