Williams County – Bryan
The Bryan Democrat, December 1, 1898
Joseph Miller was born a slave on a plantation near New Madrid, Mo., in the year 1847, and died at his home in Bryan, O., November 23, 1898, in the fifty-first year of his age. In the fall of 1861 he left the plantation and cast his lot with the Federal army, and was taken in charge by a Lieutenant of the 3d Michigan Cavalry, who, shortly afterwards, being ordered home on recruiting service, brought him with him and on his return left him with his, the Lieutenant’s, family at Jackson, Mich., where he enlisted as a drummer boy in Company F, 102nd Regiment, United States Colored Troops, and served with his company the remainder of the war, receiving his discharge at Charleston, S.C.,… Read more
