MILLER, Joseph D., Concordia Parish, Louisiana
Submitted by Mike Miller



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Louisiana:  Comprising Sketches of Parishes, Towns, Events, Institutions,
and Persons, Arranged in Cyclopedic Form (volume 3), pp. 642-643.  Edited
by Alc e Fortier, Lit.D.  Published in 1914, by Century Historical
Association.

Miller, Joseph D., assessor, Concordia parish, son of Joseph E. and
Elizabeth Rose (Campbell) Miller, was born Jan. 12, 1845, in Concordia
parish, La.  His father was born July 21, 1795, in Georgetown, Ky., and in
the early part of his life he was a merchant, but in later years pursued
the vocation of a cotton planter. Elizabeth Campbell was born in Tangipahoa
parish, in 1814, and died in 1901.  Joseph D. Miller obtained his education
in the common schools and in West Liberty academy, which he left in 1858.
The next year he went to Camden Point academy in Platt county, Mo., from
which he returned to Louisiana in 1860.  In Aug., 1861, he joined the
Confederate army in the first Louisiana cavalry under Col. Scott.  He first
went to Bowling Green, Ky., where he remained 3 months, and then moved to
Fort Donelson, where the Federals captured all the army except 1 brigade,
and Mr. Miller's regiment retreated to Nashville.  In April, 1862, just
before the battle of Shiloh Scott's regiment went there and took part in
that conflict.  After that they took part in Bragg's invasion of Kentucky,
in the summer of 1862, and in the operations in Tennessee until the battle
of Murfreesboro.  After that the regiment went to East Tennessee and
operated around Chattanooga till June, 1863, when Mr. Miller was made
lieutenant of Co. D in the 3rd Louisiana regiment of cavalry, and went west
of the Mississippi river.  They then operated in Arkansas and against
Banks' expeditions up the Red river, in 1864.  After the retreat of Banks'
army from the Red river, the regiment continued in North Louisiana until
the surrender in 1865.  Mr. Miller was paroled at Natchez, June 15, 1865,
and he returned to Concordia parish, La.  Early in the fall of 1865 he went
to Bethany college in West Virginia, a Christian school, where he remained
until the winter of 1866, when he came back to Concordia and was appointed
clerk of the district court and treasurer of the parish.  Then the
carpetbag regime was introduced, and Mr. Miller went to St. Louis and
obtained employment in a commission house, where he remained until the
winter of 1869.  At that time he returned home and engaged in cotton
planting on the old homestead, where he was born.  He was elected assessor
of Concordia parish in 1908 and again in 1912.  In 1873 he was married to
Eugenia, daughter of Ferdinand Dent of Rankin county, Miss., and their
children are:  Eugenia,  Robert,  Bessie,  Joseph E.,  Adeline,  William P.
Mr. Miller's only brother was killed in the second battle of Manassas, in
Aug., 1862.  Alexander Campbell, Jr., son of the founder of the Christian
church, married Mr. Miller's half sister, Mary Purvis, who is still living
and will be 80 years old next January.