Trooper Miller’s military, 12mm, metallic pinfire cartridge revolver is identified via serial number on the unit’s ordnance records. Miller later tried for a military pension but was denied. He was discharged for disability on at Saint Joseph, Missouri. It was during the Sep / Oct 1863 time frame that Miller ‘lost’ his Lefaucheux pistol on duty and was charged $13.00 for it. Private Miller served with this hard-fought unit thru 18 with action against numerous bushwhackers and guerrillas in a number of engagements, raids, skirmishes, including railroad duty in Northern Missouri. Miller, a native of Millerstown, PA, was a thirty-two year old carpenter working in Missouri when he enlisted in the 9 th Missouri cavalry (also known as Guitar’s Rifles) on Januat Sturgeon, MS. Miller of Company B, 9 th Missouri State Militia Cavalry (US). ![]() Presented here is a Model 1854 twelve-mm Lefaucheux pinfire revolver identified by serial number to Private Benjamin F.
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