Hugh Reid Miller
Born: May 12, 1812
Birthplace: Abbeville District, South Carolina
Father: Ebenezer Erskine Miller 1767 – 1848
(Buried: Pontotoc City Cemetery, Pontotoc, Mississippi)
Mother: Margery Reid 1778 – 1856(Buried: Pontotoc City Cemetery, Pontotoc, Mississippi)
Wife: Susan Grey Walton 1821 – 1864
(Buried: Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Mississippi)
Children:
George Miller 1840 – 1897
(Buried: Oxford Memorial Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi)
Education:
Graduated from University of South Carolina
Occupation before War:
Attorney and Judge in Pontotoc County, Mississippi
Mississippi State Representative
1860: Organized the “Pontotoc Minute Men” Volunteer Militia
Civil War Career:
1861: Delegate to Mississippi State Secession Convention
1861 – 1862: Captain Company G, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862: Lost election for Colonel of 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1862: Discharged from the Confederate Army on April 23rd
1862 – 1863: Colonel of 42nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment
1863: Mortally wounded during Pickett’s Charge, Battle of Gettysburg
Died: July 19, 1863
Place of Death: Private Home in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Cause of Death: War Wounds
Age at time of Death: 51 years old
Original Burial Place: Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia
Reinterred: Odd Fellows Rest Cemetery, Aberdeen, Mississippi
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