38th INDIANA DISCHARGE - UNION BRIG. GENERAL JOHN F. MILLER TWICE SIGNED

38th INDIANA DISCHARGE - UNION BRIG. GENERAL JOHN F. MILLER TWICE SIGNED

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Offered here is an 1862 document signed twice and endorsed by John F. Miller, an Indiana officer who rose from regimental colonel to brevet major general and twice shed his blood leading his men from the front.

Miller became colonel of the 28th Indiana Volunteers and joined Gen. Rousseau in Kentucky on October 10, 1861. In February 1862 he succeeded to the command of a brigade in Buell's Army of the Ohio, and his regiment served in Kirk's brigade at the Battle of Shiloh. He subsequently commanded first the military barracks and then the city of Nashville, Tennessee, and in September 1862 was given command at Nashville of the 7th Brigade, Negley's 8th Division.

Miller 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, receiving a bullet wound in the neck during the charge. At Liberty Gap on 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 on January 5, 1864, and commanded a division of 8,000 men on the left at the Battle of Nashville the following December. For gallant and meritorious services in that battle he was brevetted major general of volunteers on March 13, 1865, and during the summer of that year commanded the District of Mobile. He resigned on September 25, 1865, refused a commission as colonel in the regular army, and moved to San Francisco, where he practiced law and for four years served as collector of the port.

A fine Western Theater document from a hard-fighting Union commander, twice signed and endorsed while he held command at Nashville in 1862.   [cm][ph:L]

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