Toni, you indicated to me that the person you are seeking info on was Reason
B. Miller.
I found some information on him, some which indicates that he was a Union
soldier, a private in Company H, 42nd Indiana Infantry and also a private in the
44th Indiana Infantry Regiment, as you indicated.
In a listing of enlisted men of Company H, 42nd Indiana Volunteers the
following information was provided: Miller, Reason B. Private Date of Muster Oct.
29, [18]'61 Discharged Feb. 18, '62; disability. It appears that this
information was from the Report of the Adjutant General of the state of Indiana,
Volumes V and VIII, W. H. H. Terrell, Indianapolis, IN, 1866.
Also on the internet, I found a record of an Invalid pension paid to Reason
B. Miller. He served in H 42 Ind Inf and [unassigned? to a company] Unsd 44
Ind Inf. It is indicated that he filed for a pension on 1878 Apr 12,
Application N0. 252,483, Certificate No. 207,069, State from which filed Ind.
I also checked the 1880 Federal Census. There I found Reason Miller, aged
40, no occupation indicated, living at Boone, Dubois County, Indiana. He and
both his parents were born in Indiana. His wife was Nancy Miller, aged 38, born
in Indiana, father born Indiana, mother born in Virginia. There were two
sons, John, aged 14, and Cornell, aged 5.
If you examine the military service and pension files which are at the
National Archives, you should be able to get additional information-- whether he
was wounded in combat, what work he did before the war and why he was no longer
to work. Sometimes you can find the names of relatives who appear as
witnesses on documents submitted to the Commissioner, Bureau of Pensions.
Three of my great-grandfathers obtained Federal pensions for
injuries/illness due to their their Civil War service. My great-grandfather Lyman
Chittenden
Wright, who served in both the Confederate and Union armies stated in his
pension application that he was forced to join the Confederate Army in Arkansas,
but that he deserted [two years later].
Good luck in your search, Toni.
Jim Wall