Mills - Noah W.
NOAH W. MILLS was born in Montgomery County, Indiana, on the 21st of June,
1834. He received a liberal education, having graduated at Wabash College. For
several months after leaving college he was employed in an engineering corps
and later had a position with the Adams Express Company. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar. In the fall of 1856 he removed to Iowa, taking up his
residence at Des Moines, where he entered into partnership with his brother,
F. M. Mills. When the Rebellion began, Noah W. was one of the first to enter
the volunteer service and was appointed second lieutenant of Company D, of
which M. M. Crocker was the first captain in the Second Iowa Infantry. He
received rapid promotion to captain, major, lieutenant-colonel in June, 1862, and
upon the wounding of Colonel Baker, succeeded him as colonel of the regiment.
On the second day of the Battle of Corinth, while Lieutenant-Colonel Mills was
leading a charge he was severely wounded in the foot and a week later he was
attacked with lockjaw and died on the 12th of October. Colonel Mills was a man
of fine literary attainments and was an accomplished newspaper writer.
1834. He received a liberal education, having graduated at Wabash College. For
several months after leaving college he was employed in an engineering corps
and later had a position with the Adams Express Company. He studied law and
was admitted to the bar. In the fall of 1856 he removed to Iowa, taking up his
residence at Des Moines, where he entered into partnership with his brother,
F. M. Mills. When the Rebellion began, Noah W. was one of the first to enter
the volunteer service and was appointed second lieutenant of Company D, of
which M. M. Crocker was the first captain in the Second Iowa Infantry. He
received rapid promotion to captain, major, lieutenant-colonel in June, 1862, and
upon the wounding of Colonel Baker, succeeded him as colonel of the regiment.
On the second day of the Battle of Corinth, while Lieutenant-Colonel Mills was
leading a charge he was severely wounded in the foot and a week later he was
attacked with lockjaw and died on the 12th of October. Colonel Mills was a man
of fine literary attainments and was an accomplished newspaper writer.
Submitted by:
Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
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Gerischer Family Web Site:
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Debbie Clough Gerischer
Iowa Gen Web, Assistant CC, Scott County
http://www.celticcousins.net/scott/
IAGENWEB: Special History Project:
http://iagenweb.org/history/htm
Gerischer Family Web Site:
http://gerischer.rootsweb.ancestry.com/