CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: ROGER Q. MILLS - Navaro County, TX

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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

ROGER Q. MILLS.

Roger Q. Mills, of Corsicana, was born in Todd county, Kentucky, in 1832.  
He had the benefit of a good early education and at the age of seventeen 
removed to Texas, loca­ting in Palestine. He became in 1851-52 a clerk 
in the State legislature, studied law and being under twenty-one years 
of age was by special act admitted to the bar. He began the practice of 
law in Corsicana and was quite successful. In 1857-58 was a member of 
the legislature. The war came on in 1861, and Col. Mills received his 
baptismal fire as an ama­teur in Greer's 3rd Texas cavalry at Oak Hills 
on August 10. On the organization of the 10th Texas infantry he was 
chosen lieutenant-colonel and in 1862 was promoted colonel. He was 
badly wounded at Chickamauga, and in every engage­ment won plaudits for 
gallantry and skill as an officer. After the war he resumed his law 
practice in Corsicana. In 1872 he was elected to the U. S. Congress and 
served therein con­tinuously until elected in 1892 United States Senator. 
He was the leader of the Democrats in the House, author of the famous 
"Mills Bill" and won national fame as an authority on the tariff 
question. He declined a place in President Cleveland's cabinet, 
preferring to represent Texas in the U.S.	Senate.  In January 1858 he 
was married to Miss Carrie R., daughter of Col. Henry Jones, a well 
known planter, In­dian fighter, and later a large ranch owner in Texas. 
Their son, Hon. Charles H. Mills, was a major in the U. S. Volun­teers 
during the Spanish-American war and saw active service in Cuba.  He is 
a prominent business man in Cor­sicana.