![]() NPS ![]() NPS ![]() NPS ![]() NPS December 28th Sunday Night 1862 My Dearest Wife and Little Boy, This may be the last time I shall ever have the pleasure of writing to you…we expect to meet them tomorrow and I may fall… For your sake more than my own I would desire to survive this war and be returned to you. But if a merciful providence decrees otherwise, try to bear the stroke with becoming Christian fortitude. Remember your loss will be the country’s gain… My precious wife and darling Calhoun farewell Yours ever true, Elbert Miller"
![]() NPS ![]() NPS “When told he was going to die, he said ‘tell my family that I have them under the protection of God.’ He said also that he wished his body should be sent to his wife but unhappily that is out of our power… He was one of my best friends in the Regiment and respected by all who knew him. God has seen fit to take him to himself.” James R. Maxwell 34th Alabama Regt. of Tuscaloosa Ala. Maxwell noted a burial location in this passage, but Elbert’s family never found his final resting place. Elbert’s son spent years writing letters to Maxwell and others who witnessed the burial, but none could confirm the location. His remains likely lie among the nearly 2,000 Confederate soldiers buried in the Confederate Circle at Evergreen Cemetery. |
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