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Rh. In this command he served during the remainder of the war in the Trans-Mississippi department. His command, though faithful in duty, was not called upon to participate in any notable engagements, and was paroled at San Antonio in August, 1865. After the war he remained upon his father's farm in Guadalupe county, Tex., for six or eight months, and then went to Belmont, where after attending school for a time, he entered his brother's employment. After the latter's removal he purchased the store and was engaged in its management and subsequently in stock raising also, until 1885, when he gave his attention to the stock business exclusively until July, 1887, when he removed to Staunton, Virginia. There he has since been a partner of his brother. Mr. Miller was married in January, 1872, at Seguin, Tex., to Betty K., daughter of Robb Miller. She died in March, 1884, leaving four children: Mary P., Agnes E., Alexander E., and Betty K. Subsequently Mr. Miller married Miss Fanny Braxton Young, daughter of the late Col. John B. Young, of Richmond, Va., and they have two children: Fanny Braxton and Margaret Erskine.

Polk Miller, of Richmond, was born in Prince Edward county in 1844, and was there reared and educated until he had reached the age of sixteen years, when he came to Richmond and found employment as a drug clerk. In 1863 he participated in the military duties of the local defense troops and took part in the defeat of Dahlgren's raiders. In the spring of 1864, being about nineteen years of age, he enlisted as a private in the Second company of Richmond Howitzers, with which he served during the remainder of the war. He was on duty on the north side of the James river until August, 1864, after which he took part in the operations of General Early in the valley of Virginia, joining him at Winchester and continuing in that field until the following winter. He was then stationed on the Appomattox in the Petersburg lines and remained there until the evacuation. He piloted the medical department from Petersburg to Appomattox. Among the engagements in which he participated were those at Fussell's Mill, Front Royal, Charleston, Berryville, Sailor's Creek and Appomattox. After the close of hostilities he returned to Richmond, and, in the following October, embarked in the drug business, in which he has remained since that time. During recent years he has gained a remarkable reputation as a lecturer, during two years appearing no less than four hundred and fifty times. He is a member of the R. E. Lee camp and the Howitzer association.

Thomas Cecil Miller, of Lynchburg, who was a gallant participant in the service of the Eleventh Virginia infantry, until disabled by wounds, was born in Pittsylvania county, in 1842, a son of Samuel T. Miller. The ancestors of Mr. Miller have been American citizens for nearly two centuries, and have been prominent and influential citizens of their various localities. His father, a teacher and farmer, and soldier of the war of 1812, died in 1870, at the age of eighty years; his grandfather, Thomas Miller, a native of Cecil county, Md., was an ensign in the war of the Revolution, with the Virginia troops, and served under Light Horse Harry Lee and Nathaniel Greene, subsequently followed the profession of teaching, and died at Chillicothe, Ohio, in 1820: his great-grandfather, Samuel Miller, born in Cecil county, Md„ in 1735, was a