Born in Harrisburg, Pa., December 22, 1836; occupation, Pump-Maker. Enlisted June 13, 1861, in Co. F, 25th O. V. I., for three years. The regiment was organized at Camp Chase on the 28th of June 1861. No sooner was it received into the service than it was ordered on active duty in Western Virginia and was stretched over the Baltimore and Ohio R. R. from the Ohio river to Oakland, Md. On the 21st of August, 1861, the regiment was relieved and sent to Gen. Reynolds, at Beverly, Virginia. From here was sent to the top of Cheat Mountain. In September the forces here had an eight days skirmish with the rebel Gen. R. E. Lee, after which Lee withdrew. In October, about the 3rd, Reynolds marched on the rebels at Greenbrier, but accomplished nothing in the fight, and the 25th was the last regiment to leave the field. In November it went into winter quarters at Huntsville. The regiment had a large and varied experience and has too long a history to be satisfactorily given in a small space. It now enters on the following line of battles: Cheat Mountain, Sept. 12 to 20, 1861; Greenbrier, Va., Oct 3; Camp Allegheny, Va., Dec. 11; Huntersville, Jan. 4; Seneca Scout and Monterey, April 1862; McDowel, May 7 and 18; Bull Pasture Mountain, May 8; Cross Keys, June 8; in all of Pope's Campaign on the Rappahannock from the plains of Manassus to Rapidan; in second battle of Bull Run, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Hagerstown. Went into camp at Folly Island with only 72 men left, August 1863. Re-enlisted January 1, 1864. Came to Ohio, presented their battle-scarred flags, the relic of twenty battles, and under whose folds 18 color-bearers were killed, to the state archives and received new colors and went to Camp Grant, Va., thence to Hilton Head, S. C., fighting again at Deveraux Neck, Dec. 6, 1864, also Dingle Mills, Stratsburg, Rafting Creek, Boykin Mills, Swift Creek and Red Hill, when Beauregard sent a courier with a flag of truce telling them the war was ended as Lee had surrendered and Sherman and Johnston were capitulating, bringing joy to the boys. They then marched down to the coast, three days march. The last two days each man had for his rations two cans of corn. For the rest of the service they did guard and scouting duty and were mustered out June 18, 1866, after five years hard service. Comrade Miller was in all the campaigns of marching and fighting up to the battle of Bull Pasture Mountain, fought on the 8th of May, 1862, between the rebel Generals Jackson and Johnston and the Union troops under command of Generals Milroy and Schenck. The 25th opened the battle by a charge in which the enemy was driven from his position. Reinforcements were rapidly sent foward to both armies, and the conflict assumed the character of a serious engagement. It continued until night-fall, and when darkness set in a blazing circle of light from ten thousand muskets revealed the position of the contending armies. It was thought to be expedient to fall back on Franklin, and very gradually the Union forces fell back. The 25th O. V. I. was the last to leave the field and cover the retreat. Its loss in the engagement was 9 killed and 56 wounded. Comrade Miller's service began to tell heavily on him, and he was forced to take a discharge from the service.