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The Daily Dispatch: May 2, 1863., [Electronic resource], Murder of Rev. John H. Miller. (search)
Murder of Rev. John H. Miller. --Rev. John H. Miller, Colonel of a regiment of Mississippi State troops, was murdered near Pontotoc, in that State, a few weeks ago while on his way to preach a Sabbath sermon at Ripley, Miss. The Southern Presbyterian says: He received intelligence that the place was occupied by a regiment of renegade Tennessee Union men, under the notorious Col. Hurst, and knowing that he had rendered himself peculiarly obnoxious to them by his zeal and services in the Southern cause, resolved to return Accordingly, after dining hastily with one of the elders of the church, Judge Rogan, who lived in the country, he left with a view of evading them. But he unfortunately encountered two of them with two prisoners, about two miles south of Ripley, and, being alone, and perhaps too near to escapes when he observed them, he was surrounded, overpowered, knocked off his horse, shot through the head and shot again through the body! His family physician after ex