1832 - Born, GA
Father: Steven Franck Miller (1805-1873)
Mother: Harriet Thomas Miller (1812-1860)
1855 - M.D. degree, The University of the City of New York, Medical Department, New York City, NY (fr: GA)
- Practiced medicine, Rocky Point, Pender Co., NC
01/06/1857 - Married, Ann "Anna" Eliza Ashe in New Hanover Co., NC (she died in 1868)
1860 - Practiced medicine, Wilmington, New Hanover Co., NC
04/00/1861 - Date of entrance into service as a Pvt., Co. G, 18th NC Infantry
09/20/1861 - Appointed Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
09/20/1861 - Ordered to report to the 18th NC Infantry
10/01/1861 - Surgeon, 18th NC Infantry, Camp Stephens [midway between Charleston, SC, and Savannah, GA]
05/30/1862 - Brigade Surgeon, 2nd Brigade [Branch's], ?Army of the Potomac or ?Army of Northern Virginia
06/01/1862 - Surgeon, 18th NC Infantry
02/00/1863 - Transferred from the 18th NC Infantry to Ft. Branch, near Hamilton, NC
03/26/1863 - Ordered cloth as a Surgeon, Provisional Army of the Confederate States
07/21/1863 - Tendered resignation as Surgeon, 18th NC Infantry
12/01/1863 - Surgeon-in-charge, Caswell Hospital, Smithville, NC
08/00/1864 - Senior Surgeon of Gen. Louis Hébert's Brigade, Smithville, NC
10/31/1864 - Surgeon, Smithfield, NC
02/25/1865 - Assigned as Chief Surgeon of Artillery, Gen. R. F. Hoke's Command, 3rd Military District, Department of North Carolina [?and Southern Virginia]
02/28/1865 - Surgeon, Artillery of Hoke's Division, in the field - Duplin Road, near Wilmington, NC
00/00/1865 - Senior Surgeon, Gen. J. H. Lane's Brigade, in the field, near Magnolia, NC
12/19/1868 - Wife, Ann Eliza, died in Rocky Point, New Hanover Co., NC (now Pender Co., NC)
12/19/1868 - Wife, Ann Eliza, died in Wilmington, New Hanover Co., NC
06/06/1870 - Practiced medicine, Dougherty Co., GA (indexed as Jas. A. Miller) [Note: Living in the home of Dr. Miller were R. B. Harrison, a bookkeeper, and Emma Harrison. They appear to have been boarders.]
12/01/1870 - Married, Mrs. Martha M. Dominy Hooks (1846-unknown), Dougherty Co., GA
- City Physician, Albany, Doughty Co., GA
06/30/1880 - Practiced medicine and farmed, Red Bone, Lee Co., GA (lived with wife, Martha M, a daughter, and a son; indexed in the 1880 U. S. Census as James A. Miller)
06/25/1881 - Died at his home in Lee Co., GA, "after a protracted and severe illness" (Dr. Miller is presumed to be buried with his first wife in the Ashe Cemetery, Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina; FindAGrave #140736152.]

David A. French provided input to this biography.

This biographical sketch is from:
Hambrecht, F.T. & Koste, J.L., Biographical
register of physicians who served the
Confederacy in a medical capacity.
11/24/2012. Updated 10/11/2020.
Unpublished database.