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William Andrew Jackson Mills
12 Jan 1844 – 9 Mar 1928
| Birth | 12 Jan 1844 |
| Death | 9 Mar 1928 |
| Cemetery | Wingard Cemetery Pike County , Alabama , USA |
| Added by | Stanley A. Hutson on 30 Sep 2022 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23371865 |
Bio
During the Civil War, Wm. A. J. Mills served in the 53rd Alabama Cavalry Regiment, Partisan Rangers. This was a mounted cavalry unit that was organized of men from Autauga, Coffee, Coosa, Dale, Dallas, Lauderdale, Lowndes, Macon, Monroe, Montgomery, Pike, Tallapoosa and Wilcox Counties, in Montgomery, Alabama on 5 November, 1862. WAJ Mills was described in his enlistment papers as "fair-complected, with brown hair and grey eyes, about 6 feet tall." He was wounded near Atlanta, on 9 November, 1864, shot in the leg. Soldiers clearing the field with doctors doing triage treatments wanted to amputate his leg on the battlefield, but he refused to allow them to operate. He had seen men suffer terribly from amputations and die, and told the doctor he could not ride a horse with one leg, nor work his farm after the war. Doctors insisted he would die without the amputation, and his response was "Well then, I'd rather go ahead and die." The doctor ordered the soldiers to "give the man some water and go on, there were others who needed help and if this fool was determined to die, let him do so." Several hours later, when the hospital crew came back to move or pick up the dead and wounded soldiers, they found that WAJ Mills was still alive. The doctors patched up his leg and set the broken bone. He was able to rejoin his company at Savannah, and was with them through the Carolinas Campaigns, and was with the company at the surrender in April 1865. Because of his wound, he walked with a limp the rest of his life, and the limp was more pronounced when he was older. It was one of the things that his grand-daughter, Sarah Mills Borland, recounted that she remembered most about him, his "uneven" way of walking. He signed an "Oath of Allegiance" as a condition of surrender, and a copy of that document was issued on 6 June 1865, from the Headquarters of the 16th Army Corps, the Provost Marshall's Office, Montgomery, Alabama.
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- Nancy Ann Elizabeth "Annie" Mills Fowler 1845–1904
- Mary Ann Mills Fowler 1847–1948
- Daniel Bradley Mills 1849–1922
- Benjamin Leonard Mills 1851–1928
- Lucinda Catherine Mills Spivey 1854–1907
- James Pinkney Mills 1856–1926
- Rebecca Jane Mills Thorn 1862–1945
- John Raley Mills 1866–1909
Children
- James Andrew Mills 1867–1902 FaG
- Mellonia Mills Mahone 1872–1957 FaG
- Mary Idella Mills 1875–1875 FaG
- William Thomas Mills 1877–1941 FaG
- Lillie Mills Revel 1879–1966 FaG
- Lenna E. Mills 1882–1973 FaG
- Robert Shelton Mills 1885–1890 FaG
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