General Notes

Custom Field:<_FA#> Farmed 120 acres Bentleyville, Coosa Co., AL.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
Custom Field:<_FA#> He lived to be 71 years and one day old. He died after his birthday.@@S726784@@Date of Import: Jul 31, 2003
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Andrew J. Miller served in the 53rd Alabama Cavalry, Company C. This
regiment was also referred as a mounted infantry and was also called
Partisan Rangers.
Confederate Military Record
Miller, A. J. Co. "D" 7th, Batt. Miss. Vol
(The above is a mistake. He served in the 53rd Ala Cavalry, Company C.)
Private;
Enlisted;  Aug. 10th , 1862 at Wetumpka, Ala.
Wounded; 1862 at Corinth, Miss. Also Altoona, Mountain, Ga.
Discharged;  5 May 1865
Remarks; P. O. Address, Bentleyville, Ala.  Age  65 years
Authority; Pension Application Coosa, County  July 26th, 1899. (1)
(1) Confederate Military Record located in Alabama Archives and History,
Montgomery, AL.
MUSTER ROLL
The 53rd's Company C Muster Roll, that I received from the National
Archives on July 17, 1997 records that Andrew Jackson Miller enlisted
August 6 thru September 30 of 1862 in Buyckville (which is in Coosa
County), AL, by Humphries for the period of the war. He enlisted once
again September 30 thru December of 1862 in Buyckville, AL, by Humphries
for the period of the war. On January 15, 1863 in Montgomery, AL he was
paid the sum of fifty dollars in full for his bounty by Capt. I. (in
later entries the initial is J.) P. Dickinson, A. Q. M. of 53d Regiment
Ala Vols., Rangers. From December 31, 1862 thru April 30, 1863, the
Company Muster Roll's do not state if he was present or absent. He
appears on the rolls as present from May 1863 to June 1863; during same
period it is written that he enlisted on August 6, 1862 in Montgomery,
AL, by Col. M. W. Hannon and paid by Capt J. P. Dickinson to the time of
December 31, 1862.  Then the roll records he was present from June thru
October 31, 1863 and that he was paid by Capt Felder to the time of June
30, 1863. From November thru December of 1863 he appears on the roll as
present paid to the time of October 31, 1863 by J. P. Dickerson.  Andrew
appears on the receipt roll as an occupation of Teamster - Ambulance
driver from December 22, 1863 to February 29, 1864, and then from March
1, 1864 thru April 1, 1864. He was paid a rate of 25 cents for this
occupation. He also appears on a RECEIPT ROLL for clothing for quarters
one and four for 1864.
53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment [Partisan Rangers]
The 53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers, was organized by
increasing the 1st Cavalry Battalion to regimental size at Montgomery on
5 November 1862. Recruits were from Autauga, Coffee, Coosa, Dale, Dallas,
Lauderdale, Lowndes, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Tallapoosa and
Wilcox counties. It proceeded in a few weeks to Mississippi. In moving
from Columbus to Decatur, in Lawrence, a portion of the regiment was
there equipped and proceeded to join Gen'l Earl Van Dorn. This battalion
was in the fighting at Thompson's Station, and at Brentwood. The regiment
was engaged in the fight with Union Gen'l Grenville Dodge at Town Creek
and in the pursuit of Union Col. Abel Streight. Soon after, the 53rd
joined the main army at Daltonas part of Gen'l Moses W. Hannon's Brigade,
Gen'l John Kelly's Division. It operated on the right of the army as it
fell back towards Atlanta and was engaged in constant duty. When Union
Gen'l William T. Sherman reached Atlanta, the 53rd was the principal
force engaged in the daring raid in his rear, whereby a valuable train
was destroyed. It was then at the heels of Sherman as he devastated
Georgia and the Carolinas, and it took part in the last operations of the
war in that quarter. It surrendered a small number with Gen'l Joseph E.
Johnston at Durham Station, Orange County, NC, on 26 April 1865. Field
and staff officers: Col. Moses W. Hannon (Montgomery; promoted); Lt. Col.
Jo