MILLER, Horace H. CSA

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Horace H. Miller was born around 1826 in the state of Kentucky. Miller's father was Anderson Miller who was a steam-boat captain and later a federal marshal for the Mississippi District from 1841 to 1845. Miller's mother was Elizabeth.

Miller served as a sergeant-major for the 1st Mississippi Infantry during the Mexican-American War.

In 1851, Miller co-created the newspaper "True Issue." He passed the bar in Vicksburg, Mississippi and practiced law in that state up until his death.

U. S. President Millard Fillmore appointed Miller as Chargé d'Affaires in the South American country of Bolivia. He was there from 1851-53.

Miller married Sarah Augusta Ragan in 1857.

During the Civil War, Miller sided with the Confederacy and served as an officer. He was with the 9th, 12th, and 20th Mississippi. Miller was captured at Fort Donelson, led companies at the Battle of Ponchatoula, and was in the Atlanta campaign. He attained the rank of colonel by the end.

In 1874, he was called upon to squelch the Vicksburg riots.

Miller died in Vicksburg on Friday, January 26, 1877.

Sources: The Papers of Jefferson Davis, WOR, RG 109, Find-a-Grave, and The Daily Clarion (January 27, 1877)

Biographer: ROBERT BRUCE FERGUSON, 2017.
 
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