Hugh Reid Miller (May 14, 1812July 19, 1863) was an American lawyer, slaveowner, and Confederate soldier who served as a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives from 1842 to 1844. Biography Miller was born in South Carolina in 1812, and moved to Pontotoc, Mississippi in 1835. He became a prosperous lawyer, planter, and slaveowner, holding ten people as slaves in 1860.
Miller represented Pontotoc county in the Mississippi legislature in the 1840s, and as tensions rose following the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln, he was elected as a delegate to Mississippi's secession convention in January, 1861. His brother Andrew also served as a delegate, and both voted for the pro-secessionist position.
Enlisting in the Confederate Army at the outbreak of the American Civil War, Hugh Miller was elected as captain of a company in the 2nd Mississippi Infantry Regiment, then as colonel of the 42nd Mississippi in the Army of Northern Virginia.
Miller was mortally wounded at the Battle of Gettysburg on the third day (July 3, 1863) while in temporary command of Joseph R. Davis' brigade.Hugh R. Miller, "Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Serving from Mississippi, Forty-second Infantry," M269 R109, General Services Administration National Archives and Record Service (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1960).
See also List of University of South Carolina people
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Official Miller Family Papers at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History Miller Family Papers at the University of Mississippi General information