Miller, Chas.

Soldier:   Charles Stratton Miller

Regiment:  9th Ohio Cavalry                

Company:         K

Age:  18                       

Date Entering Service:  11/7/1863

Period of Service:  8 months

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Transferred from 12th Ohio Cavalry.    Discharged 7/20/1865

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Florence, Alabama                                                    4/13/1864

Battle of Center Star, Alabama                                    5/16/1864

Rousseau’s Raid of Alabama and Georgia                       7/11 to 22/1864

Battle of East Point, Georgia                                                   8/30/1864

Battle of Waynesboro, Georgia                                   12/4/1864

Battle near Savannah, Georgia                                      2/2/1865

Battle of Aiken, South Carolina                                    2/11/1865

Battle of Winnsborough, South Carolina                      2/22/1865

Battle of Monroe’s Cross Roads, North Carolina           3/10/1865

Battle of Averysville, North Carolina                                        3/16/1865

Battle of Raleigh, North Carolina                                 4/13/1865                                               

Other interesting information discovered:

Charles Stratton Miller was born in 1845 in Ohio.  In 1860 he was living with his parents in the Cardington, Ohio area. He married Alice Clark on 12/23/1868 in Morrow County, two children were born of this union.  Charles and his family lived in the Mt Gilead, Ohio are between the years of 1870 and 1890 where he was employed as a store clerk.  At some point Charles and his family moved to the Akron, Ohio area where he was employed with the Railroad.

Date of Death:  5/9/1912                       Place of burial:  Rivercliff Cemetery, Mt Gilead, Ohio

Adopted By:  Veteran of Foreign Wars of Ohio                Researcher: Velda L Montgomery


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