Davidson County TN Archives Military Records.....Miller, Edward H. Civilwar 11th TN Volunteers, Co. B ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tn/tnfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Fran C. Rutkovsky prutkov@garnet.acns.fsu.edu April 1, 2006, 11:47 pm Experience As Prisoner Of War Edward H. Miller, POW, 1863-65 Edward H. Miller, son of George S. Miller and America Ann Hill Miller, was born 25 January, 1842, in Franklin Co., TN. At the time of his service in the Civil War, Ed lived in Davidson Co. TN (Nashville). He married Millie Hunt in Dec. 1865, and they had 5 children. He had a mattress and upholstery business in Nashville until about 1886/87, and then the family moved to Los Angeles, CA. He died after 1920. This paper belonged to my grandmother, Ella Frances Miller Highers, a niece of Ed Miller. Ed H. Miller: Experience as a prisoner of war at Rock Island from November, 1863 to March, 1865 I was a member of Co B 11th Tennessee Volunteers. My rank was a non-commissioned officer and I was an active member, was in all engagements with my command up to the time I was captured at the battle of Mission Ridge, which was about the last of October, 1863. I was in the battles of East Tennessee and Wilcox, Kentucky, under General Zolicoffer, the Kentucky campaign at Passyville, Murfreesboro, Chiccamauga with General Bragg. I was not in good health at the time I was captured, in fact I was so weak my Captain, Ed Clark, made me leave the battlefield during the second day's fight. It was about five or six o'clock in the afternoon when we had to retreat across the river. As I was so weak and worn out, I could not travel very fast and could not get across the river, so I tried to make my way out the best I could. Night came and it was very slow progress in the dark and about three or four o'clock in the morning I was captured. The next day I was taken back to Chattanooga, being sick, they put me in the Crutchfield House with the other sick. They made us lay on the floor with only blankets under us and our coat for a pillow. I was confined there about a month before I was able to leave, and most all the other men died, but when I was able to leave I was placed in jail and kept there about a month among the worst lot of Federal soldiers who were in jail for all sorts of crimes. Then I was sent to Nashville and put in the penitentiary and kept there a few days and when I refused to take the oath of allegiance, they sent me to Rock Island Prison where I remained until March, 1865. I was in barrack No. 47 with my old comrade Sept W Abbey who was Sargeant of the Barracks and I was commissary for the barracks. For awhile they treated us prisoners passable well but soon commenced to cut down our rations until two days rations would make only one meal. They consisted of a cup of soup and a bone with a little meat on it and a small piece of bread made of corn husk or flour with potato peelings mixed up in it. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tn/davidson/military/civilwar/other/miller123gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/tnfiles/ File size: 3.3 Kb