George Martin
W. H. Miller, Private/Sergeant Co. E & D, 21st Mississippi Infantry, Alternate Name William F. Miller [NPS Soldiers and Sailors System]
W. H. Millers Compiled Service Record cards are filed with William F. Miller
William F. Miller, age 23, Single, Boatsman, resident of Fort Adams, Mississippi, enlisted as a Private in Captain I. D. Stamps' Company, Mississippi Volunteers** June 6, 1861 at Woodville, Mississippi, on extra duty Provost Policeman Manassas, Sept/Oct 1862, promoted 4th Sergeant, n.d., promoted 3rd Sergeant, n.d., at home on a 30 day furlough of indulgence February 4, 1863, captured at Gettysburg July 1/2/3, 1863, sent to Fort Delaware arriving July 7, 1863, "Has since escaped from Ft. Delaware by swimming the Delaware River," recorded on October 30, 1863 as "absent on Furlough as paroled prisoner September 15, 1863," captured at Cedar Creek, October 10, 1864, sent to Point Lookout, Maryland prison camp October 24, 1864, paroled and exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia March 28, 1865,
**This company subsequently became Company E (Hurricane Rifles), 21st Regiment Mississippi Infantry.
21st Regiment, Mississippi Infantry
21st Infantry Regiment was organized in October, 1861, using the 1st (Brandon's) Mississippi Infantry Battalion as its nucleus. It was mustered into Confederate service at Manassas, Virginia. The men were from the counties of Warren, Hinds, Claiborne, Lafayette, Tallahatchie, Madison, Holmes, and Union. In April, 1862, its force was 684 men, and during the war it served under the command of Generals Griffith, Barksdale, and Humphreys. The 21st participated in the campaigns of the army from the Seven Days' Battles to Gettysburg, then moved to Longstreet to fight at Chickamauga and Knoxville. After returning to Virginia it was involved in the Battles of The Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Cold Harbor, Early's Shenandoah Valley operations, and the Appomattox Campaign. It lost 32 killed and 119 wounded during the Seven Days' Battles, had 3 killed and 56 wounded of the 200 engaged at Sharpsburg, and had 11 wounded at Fredericksburg. Its casualties at Chancellorsville were 3 killed and 25 wounded and twenty-four percent of the 424 at Gettysburg were disabled. Many were captured at Sayler's Creek, and only 4 officers and 44 men surrendered. Its field officers were Colonels William L. Brandon, Benjamin G. Humphreys, and Daniel N. Moody; Lieutenant Colonels William H. Fitzgerald and John Sims; and Major John G. Taylor.