GILMER COUNTY, GA - BIOS Milton, Pinkney Harrison ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Jacqueline King PINKNEY HARRISON MILTON, of Ellijay, Gilmer, Co., was born in Buncombe county, N. C., April 11, 1840. Soon after his birth he moved with his parents to Union county, this state, where his family resided until 1845, when they settled in Gilmer county. He received a common school education at Ellijay. March 4, 1861, at the age of twenty, he enlisted as private in Company H, First Regiment Georgia Regulars and accompanied his regiment to Virginia. He first served under Gen. Toombs, and later under Gen. Tige Anderson, and participated in the second battle of Manassas and in all the battles from Seven Pines to Fredericksburg, including the seven days' fight before Richmond. After the battle of Fredericksburg his regiment was ordered to Georgia to recruit, and later to Olusta, Fla., where they engaged in that battle. His term of service having expired, he enlisted in the navy at Charleston, continuing in that service eight months, until after the evacuation of that city, when he was taken prisoner and was confined in Charleston until Lee's surrender. He returned to his home on July, 1865. The war record of Mr. Milton made him a popular man in Gilmer county, and in 1868 he was elected to the office of sheriff, being the only democrat on the county ticket who succeeded in being elected. His popularity increased during his term of office, and in 1870 he was re- elected to that office, also in 1877 and 1879. He next taught school several years, and that occupation has occupied his time at different periods since the war. In 1885 he was appointed United States deputy-marshal for the northern district of Georgia, and his popularity was such that he continued to discharge the duties of that office, which were burdensome and exacting, during the administration of President Harrison. In 1893, he was again appointed deputy-marshal, and continues to discharge the duties of that position. Mr, Milton was wounded seven times during the war; first at Malvern Hill, twice at South Mountain, at Yorktown, at the second battle of Manasses, and twice at Fredericksburg. On Dec. 31, 1865, Mr. Milton was married to Miss Nancy Caroline Williams, formerly of Buncombe county, N. C.. Ten children have been born to them, eight of whom survive: William Franklin, born Sept. 30, 1866; John Edgar, born August 27, 1868; Robert Lafayette, born April 27, 1871; Ida Lerisa, born July 30, 1873; Irene Elizabeth, born August 7 1877; Emma Louisa, born July 12, 1883; Lilly Rosalee, born Feb. 15, 1886, and died Aug. 27, 1886; Effie, born Nov. 22, 1889; Ellen Agnes, born June 30, 1893, and Daisy, who was born Sept. 8, 1876, and died in infancy. The father of Mr. Milton was William Hamilton Milton, a native of Versailles, France. The mother of Mr. Milton was Elizabeth Love Peoples, a native of South Carolina. She died in 1882 in Ellijay. Source: Memoirs of Georgia published 1895 by The Southern Historical Society