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Confederate (CSA)

Captain

Francis Permania Miller

(c. 1833 - 1862)

Home State: North Carolina

Command Billet: Commanding Regiment

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 21st North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 27 year old carpenter living with his parents, grandmother, and 9 siblings on the family farm in Forsyth County, NC. He enrolled at Winston, NC on 11 June 1861 and was commissioned Captain, Company K, 11th North Carolina Infantry. The regiment was re-designated the 21st Infantry on 14 November 1861. He was elected Major of the regiment prior to Sharpsburg, but declined the commission.

On the Campaign

He was at Harpers Ferry on 15 September and was killed in action at Sharpsburg on the 17 September 1862 while in command of the regiment as senior officer present.

The rest of the War

His father filed a claim for his final pay in March 1863.

References & notes

His service from Moore,1 the Roster,2 and his Compiled Service Records,3 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1833; Salem, NC

Death

09/17/1862; Sharpsburg, MD

Notes

1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 2, pg. 201 [AotW citation 1010]

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 19270]

3 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31880]

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