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    Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

    Gents-

    I shared this with my unit and I believe it would be of interest here too.

    Please find a link and picture for Private Jacob Miller of Company K, 9th Indiana Infantry. Private Miller was seriously wounded on September 19, 1863 at the Battle of Chickamauga. Thousands of men were casualties but what makes his story unique is where he was wounded and what he did afterwards.

    As a seperate point of interest, if his detailing of the projectiles that came out of the wound are correct than it seems he was shot with a buck and ball load. But the ball and all the buckshot being in the same wound does not seem possible given the spread pattern that was characteristic of this load. And it seems impossible that he would have survived a shot that close up preventing a spread pattern. Any thoughts ballistic experts?

    Here is the link;

    Jacob Miller, a War Scarred Hero 1911 - Tipton Twp, Cass County, IN Native
    http://incass-inmiami.org/cass/bio_gen/millerjacob.html
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    Last edited by Cumpston1862; 07-24-2013, 11:46 AM. Reason: Buck n Ball Dilemma
    Louis Zenti

    Pvt. Albert R. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-W.I.A. February 15, 1862)
    Pvt. William H. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-K.I.A. February 15, 1862 Ft. Donelson)
    Pvt. Simon Sams (Co. C, 18th Iowa Inf.-K.I.A. January 8, 1863 Springfield, MO)
    Pvt. Elisha Cox (Co. C, 26th North Carolina Inf.-W.I.A. July 3, 1863 Gettysburg)

    "...in the hottest of the fight, some of the rebs yelled out...them must be Iowa boys". Charles O. Musser 29th Iowa Infantry
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  • #2
    Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

    9th Indiana was a tough lot.
    Pat Brown

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    • #3
      Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

      The 9th was tangling with the 5th Georgia on the very north end of Brock Field and after the 5th retired the 6th and 9th Tennessee Consolidated. It is possible that he was hit with projectiles from more than one musket, consider a file or a a volley.
      Lee White
      Researcher and Historian
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      • #4
        Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

        Originally posted by brown View Post
        9th Indiana was a tough lot.
        Not only were they a tough lot but crafty as well - when a Confederate officer demanded Col. Suman's surrender he responded that he had already surrendered to another Confederate officer and he really didn't appreciate this fellow's gross insensitivity - whereupon he ordered an immediate volly and hasty withdrawal.
        Peter Julius
        North State Rifles

        "North Carolina - a vale of humility between two mountains of conceit." Unknown author

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        • #5
          Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

          Gents-

          It's possible that he was hit by more than one shot. I am leaning more towards the possibility that Pvt. Miller was shot by one load and it was at close range. This would explain the pieces of the buck and ball being in the one wound. The only way it would not be lethal is if the Johnny that fired it had something wrong with his gun or he got only a fraction of the powder loaded because of the stress from battle.

          Or perhaps the one ball broke up on impact into several pieces.
          Louis Zenti

          Pvt. Albert R. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-W.I.A. February 15, 1862)
          Pvt. William H. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-K.I.A. February 15, 1862 Ft. Donelson)
          Pvt. Simon Sams (Co. C, 18th Iowa Inf.-K.I.A. January 8, 1863 Springfield, MO)
          Pvt. Elisha Cox (Co. C, 26th North Carolina Inf.-W.I.A. July 3, 1863 Gettysburg)

          "...in the hottest of the fight, some of the rebs yelled out...them must be Iowa boys". Charles O. Musser 29th Iowa Infantry

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          • #6
            Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

            This book of medical cases might be of interest to some. Though, by his own account and common sense, it is clear he was not in the hospital at Nashville on the same day as his wound.

            The Medical and Surgical History of the War of Rebellion (1861-65)
            http://books.google.com/books?id=kjVFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA164&lpg=PA164&dq=jacob+miller+9th+indiana&source=bl&ots=qyDx2j_7KK&sig=UbcQKi-x1cJjn7mkmqEKFFSH3OQ&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NSPxUZ77CI7e8wTi6IHwCQ&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=jacob%20miller%209th%20indiana&f=false
            Tyler D. Scott

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            • #7
              Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

              We tend to focus on the immediate aftermath of battle and wounds...but the reality for tens of thousands was constant pain the rest of their lives. One of my ancestors lived for 52 years after the war in constant pain from the "piles" he developed before being discharged, enduring operation after operation with no cure. He has a pension file that reads like a horror story. Joshua Chamberlain finally died from his grevious wounding at Petersburg...in 1914. A soldier in the 147th NY, shot in the head at Gettysburg, endured "sloughing" from his would his entire life. As more and more of his skull bone died and was removed he had an area bigger than his fist with no bone at all behind his right ear. Constant pain, infection, bright lights in his head, dizziness and periods of mania.

              What some of these men did just to live is amazing.

              Heroes indeed.
              Soli Deo Gloria
              Doug Cooper

              "The past is never dead. It's not even past." William Faulkner

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              • #8
                Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

                I completely agree Doug.

                I would encourage everyone that has documented their Civil War ancestors to send away for their pension records from the National Archives. Those records often contain the original pension application and any adjustments made throughout that soldier's life. They are fascinating and painful reading my Brothers.

                One of my ancestor's took a buckshot to the head at Ft. Donelson and even though he finished his enlistment and reenlisted as a veteran it pained him for the rest of his life. The buckshot was never removed. When examined in the 1870s it still had not healed and continued to have a discharge.

                Tyler thanks for that link...fascinating reading!
                Louis Zenti

                Pvt. Albert R. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-W.I.A. February 15, 1862)
                Pvt. William H. Cumpston (Company B, 12th Illinois Vol. Inf.-K.I.A. February 15, 1862 Ft. Donelson)
                Pvt. Simon Sams (Co. C, 18th Iowa Inf.-K.I.A. January 8, 1863 Springfield, MO)
                Pvt. Elisha Cox (Co. C, 26th North Carolina Inf.-W.I.A. July 3, 1863 Gettysburg)

                "...in the hottest of the fight, some of the rebs yelled out...them must be Iowa boys". Charles O. Musser 29th Iowa Infantry

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                • #9
                  Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

                  Man Is Never Defeated Until He Gives UP
                  http://www.oocities.org/bourbonstreet/Delta/3843/man.htm
                  Dean Burchfield
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                  • #10
                    Re: Story To Get Your Chickamauga On

                    Brother Dean,
                    I really enjoyed reading this story.

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