General Notes

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John McBride Miller is sometimes referred as J. M. C. Miller. His name
was inadvertently written several ways:  J. M. C. Miller; JMC Miller;
John MC Miller; or John M. C. Miller.
On May of 1862 J. M. C. Miller, age 19, was present for roll call of the
34th Ala Infantry Regiment, Company B.
34th Alabama Infantry Regiment
The 34th Alabama Infantry was organized at Loachapoka on 15 April 1862,
with
companies recruited from Montgomery and the counties of Coosa, Russell,
and
Tallapoosa. It was sent to Tupelo, MS, and was placed with the 24th and
28th Alabama regiments, and two South Carolina regiments, in Gen'l Arthur
M. Manigault's Brigade, Gen'l Jones M. Wither's Division. The regiment
moved into Kentucky but was not in action during the campaign. It was
with the main Army of Tennessee when it fought at Murfreesboro, and it
sustained heavy casualties (11 k, 77 w). The remainder of the winter was
spent near Tullahoma, and the regiment then withdrew with the army to the
Chattanooga area. At Chickamauga, the 34th again lost heavily, and at
Missionary Ridge, a large number were captured. The regiment, numbering
388 men and 281 arms, wintered and recruited for the campaigning of 1864
at Dalton and began the "Hundred Days' Battle" in the spring. From Dalton
to Atlanta, the 34th shared fully in the operations of the Army of
Tennessee. It lost heavily in the battles of 22 and 28 July, at Atlanta.
At Jonesboro, casualties were light. At the Battle of Franklin, the 34th
escaped the severest part of the fighting, but at Nashville, the
remainder of the unit was nearly decimated. With the wreck of the Army,
the regiment passed into the Carolinas where it skirmished at Kinston and
again at Bentonville. Ultimately consolidated with the 24th and 28th
regiments, about 100 of the original 1,000 members of the regiment were
surrendered at High Point, North Carolina, 26 April 1865.
Field officers: Col. Julius C. B. Mitchell (Montgomery, detached). Lt.
Cols. James W. Echols (Macon, resigned); John C. Carter (Montgomery,
wounded at Murfreesboro). Majors Henry R. McCoy (Tallapoosa, resigned);
John N. Slaughter (Coosa, wounded at Atlanta).
History: I. B. Cadenhead. "Some Confederate letters of I. B. Cadenhead,
Co. H, 34th Alabama infantry regiment," Alabama Historical Quarterly,
vol. XVIII (1956), pp. 564-71. James Robert Maxwell. Autobiography of
James Robert Maxwell of
Tuscaloosa, Alabam[a]. (New York, 1926)
On 20 Jun 1997, I discovered a gravestone had been placed on his grave.
This was done after the Coosa County Records Volume II, Cemeteries, had
been completed in 1980. In that said records it was written: No
dates(meaning on gravestone), but he is a brother of A. J. (referring to
Andrew Jackson Miller).  Information in Coosa County Records, Vol. II,
page 75. A. J. Miller is buried near his brother. There was a wreath by
his grave with a small Confederate flag stuck on top of the wreath. The
gravestone appears to be one issued through a veterans program. The
gravestone was white and had inscribed on it:
PVT
John MC Miller
CO B
34 ALA Regt
CSA
Jan 11, 1841
Nov 6, 1927
I later discovered that William E. Miller, the Great Grandson of John
McBride Miller, placed the gravestone there and had a dedication
performed in honor of the service that John gave to the CSA as a solider.
The Chronicle
"J. M. C. Miller, of Hanover, was in Rockford Saturday.  Mr. Miller is a
veteran of the Confederacy, 68 years old, and while here called at the
McCann barber shop and was shaved and informed The Chronicle
representative that it was the second time he had ever had his face
shaved, the other time was