Elijah Mills
Elijah Mills was born September 14, 1841, in Fayette County, Ohio; enlisted September 6, 1861, at Washington C. H., in Company K, Forty-fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry as a private; was appointed Corporal in 1862, and Sergeant in 1864. In 1864 the regiment "veteraned" at Strawberry Plains, East Tennessee, was reorganized and became the Eighth Ohio Volunteer Cavalry. Mr. Mills was Quartermaster Sergeant of his Company when mustered out May, 1865, at Columbus, Ohio; served in the Twenty-third Army Corps; participated in the following battles: Lewisburg, W. Va., May 23, 1862, Gauley, W. Va., 1862, Charleston W. Va., 1862, Somerset, Ky., March 30, 1863, Carter's "Knoxville Raid." May, 1863, Pound Gap, Tenn., Siege of Knoxville, from November 17 to December 5, 1863, Bean's Station, East Tenn., December 14, 1863, "Raid of Lynchburg, " under Gen. Hunter. His regiment served upon outpost and scouting duty in West Virginia, for two years and a half, and did the same sort of duty for a year in Kentucky and East Tennessee, engaging in a great many skirmishes and minor battles. His own and two other companies of the regiment, were surprised at night, while stationed at Huttonsville, W. Va., in 1864, and captured. The balance of the regiment, stationed at Beverly, was at once notified and pursued the Rebels so hotly that they were obliged to take the horses and arms and let the prisoners go. Is married, and has seven children; came to Osage County from Jamestown, Greene Co., Ohio, November 3, 1868; a prohibition Republican and a member of the Methodist Church.
From R. S. Dills' History of Fayette County