(c. 1841 - 1862)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
A 20 year old laborer in New Hanover County, he mustered as Private, Company G, 18th North Carolina Infantry on 16 July 1861 in New Hanover County.
On the Campaign
He was captured at Frederick, MD on 13 September 1862, probably left behind, sick. He died of typhoid fever on 15 September.
References & notes
Burial and basic unit information from the Mt Olivet burial list,1 which has him as S.F. Miller. Service from the Roster 2 via the Historical Data Systems database. A stone for "S.F. Miler" is at Mt Olivet [via Findagrave].
Birth
c. 1841; New Hanover County, NC
Death
09/15/1862; Frederick, MD; burial in Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, MD
1 Farino, Greg, and J. Ronald Pearcey, superintendent, Confederate Soldiers buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Frederick, Hagerstown (MD): WHILBR, 2010 [AotW citation 5120]
2 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 19240]