CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: P. J. MILLS - Anderson County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

P. J. MILLS.

Pinkney Jackson Mills was born in Sumpter county Tenn. Removed to Texas 
in 1874. Enlisted in company II 15th Arkansas regiment, Cleburne's old 
regiment and division. Was in the battles of Shiloh, Murfefsboro, 
Chickamauga. Was with Johnston in the Georgia campaign and Franklin 
when Gen. Pat Cleburne, fell across the enemy's breastworks. Was with 
Bragg in the Kentucky campaign. He was in the battles for which his 
division sustained so great a loss but made Cleburn a fighting general. 
Post office Palestine, Texas.