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T.J. Mills
(c. 1833 - 1862)
Home State: Connecticut
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Antietam
A 28 year old blacksmith in New London, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Company D, 1st Connecticut Heavy Artillery on 22 May 1861 and was promoted to First Lieutenant on 26 October. He resigned on 27 December 1861. He then enlisted as Private, Company H, 14th Connecticut Infantry on 29 July 1862 and was promoted to Sergeant and mustered into service on 23 August in Hartford.
On the Campaign
While bearing the colors in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862, he was mortally wounded in the hip and abdomen.
The rest of the War
He was treated at the Smoketown Hospital near the battlefield, but died there of his wounds on 17 October 1862.
References & notes
His service information from Page1 and the Adjutant General.2 Wound and hospital details from Nelson.3 Personal details from family genealogists, the 1860 US Census, and his widow's Federal pension file online via fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave; his stone has his death date as 16 September 1862.
He married Julia F. Lamb (1837-1922) in May 1853 and they had a son Billings (b. 1854) and daughter Julia (later Quinn, 1855-1929). She applied for a pension for herself and her daughter in January 1863, which was granted. She remarried in 1868, Captain Samuel Daniel Crocker (1827-1906).
More on the Web
See more about a miniature tintype of Mills in Lieutenant's uniform owned by Tad Sattler, source of his picture above, in a post by John Banks on his Civil War Blog.
Birth
c. 1833 in MA
Death
10/17/1862; Smoketown, MD; burial in Cedar Grove Cemetery, New London, CT
1 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, pp. 468 - 479 [AotW citation 9284]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889 [AotW citation 26081]
3 Nelson, John H., As Grain Falls Before the Reaper: The Federal Hospital Sites and Identified Federal Casualties at Antietam, Hagerstown: John H. Nelson, 2004, pg. 324 [AotW citation 26082]