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Civil War Soldiers - Miller
| Miller, John F., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Union county Ind., Nov. 21, 1831. He removed
with his parents to South Bend in 1833, was prepared for college and
was graduated in 1852 at the New York state law-school. After
practicing a short time in South Bend he was forced to go west for his
health and for three years resided in California. On returning to
Indiana he took an active part in the Republican campaign of 1856 and
was a member of the state senate in 1860, but resigned to enter the
army. After serving as aide to Gov. Morton he recruited and became
colonel of the 29th Ind. volunteers and joined Gen. Rousseau in
Kentucky, Oct. 10, 1861. He succeeded in Feb., 1862, to the command of
a brigade in Buell's Army of the Ohio, and his regiment served in
Kirk's brigade in the battle of Shiloh. He subsequently commanded
first the military barracks and then the city of Nashville, Tenn., and
in Sept., 1862, was given command at Nashville of the 7th brigade,
Negley's 8th division. He distinguished himself particularly at the
battle of Stone's river, where at the head of his brigade he charged
across the river and drove Breckenridge from his position, and in the
charge he received a bullet wound in the neck. At Liberty gap, June
25, 1863, he made another gallant charge and received a wound which
destroyed the sight of his right eye. He was promoted
brigadier-general of volunteers, Jan. 5, 1864, and he commanded a
division of 8,000 men on the left at the battle of Nashville in the
following December. For gallant and meritorious services in this
battle he was brevetted major-general of volunteers on March 13, 1865,
and during the summer of that year he commanded the district of
Mobile. He resigned Sept. 25, 1865, refused a commission as colonel in
the regular army and moved to San Francisco, where he practised law
and for four years was collector of the port. He was then an organizer
and became president of the Alaska commercial fur company and amassed
a large fortune. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1872,
1876, 1880; a member of the state constitutional convention in 1879,
and in Jan., 1881, was elected to the United States senate, where he
served until his death. He died in Washington, D. C., March 8, 1886.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Miller, Stephen, brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Carroll, Pa., Jan. 7, 1816. He received a
common school education, became interested in politics and held the
offices of prothonotary of Dauphin county and flour inspector in
Philadelphia. From 1853 to 1855 he edited the "Telegraph," a Whig
newspaper in Harrisburg. Removing to St. Cloud, Minn., in 1858, he
engaged in business there and became a delegate to the Republican
national convention in 1860 and a presidential elector for Lincoln in
that year. He became lieutenant-colonel of the 1st Minn. infantry,
April 29, 1861, and its colonel Aug. 24, 1862. He took part in the
battles of Bull Run and Ball's bluff, the Valley campaign and the
Peninsular campaign of 1862, and on Nov. 17, 1862, he succeeded Gen.
Sibley in command of Mankato, Minn. He assisted with his regiment in
quelling the Indian outbreak of that year and had charge of the
execution of 38 of the disloyal Indians on Dec. 26. He commanded the
District of Minnesota during Gen. Sibley's absence in June, 1863, and
on Oct. 26, he was promoted brigadier-general of volunteers. He then
commanded Fort Snelling, but resigned from the army, Jan. 18, 1864,
having been elected governor of Minnesota. He was governor of
Minnesota in 1864- 65, and from 1871 to 1881 was field agent for the
St. Paul & Sioux City railroad. Gen. Miller died at Worthington,
Minn., Aug. 18, 1881.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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