John Anderson McMillan

John Anderson McMillan was wounded at the Battle of Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Virginia, during the Civil War, May 31, 1862. He died in hospital on June 10, 1862.

Mary McMillan filed a Pension Application on July 13, 1888 under the service of her son John McMillan who was killed in the Civil War. Her original attorney died and on July 5, 1889, her new attorney again sought a pension for her. A form date July 24, 1890 indicates that the application has been executed. There is no evidence in any of the pension papers that she ever received anything.

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/PAWASHIN/2001-07/0995...

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14940178

Photo: 85th Infantry, First State Color. Composed of men from Washington, Fayette, Somerset, and Greene counties, the 85th was organized on November 12, 1861 under Colonel Joshua B. Howell. The second state color was probably received sometime after late December 1863. Most of the regiment was mustered out in November 1864, and those who remained were consolidated with the 188th PA.

http://www.pacivilwarflags.org/regiments/indivRegiment.cfm?group=51...

PA 85 A M'Millen John A. Private Died at Washington, D. C. on June 10, of wounds received at Fair Oaks. Va. on May 31, 1862.

http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/notes2.php?name=Fair%20Oaks

85th Pennsylvania Infantry Soldier Roster - Civil War Index

COMPANY A.

Recruited in Washington County.

M'Millen, John A...Oct. 16, '61 Died at Washington, D. C, June 10, of wounds received at Fair Oaks. Va., May 31. 1862.

http://www.civilwarindex.com/armypa/Rosters/85th_pa_infantry_roster...

http://php.scripts.psu.edu/~sam21/regiment2.php?reg=85&state=PA

172 EIGHTY-FIFTH PENNSYLVANIA VOLUNTEER INFANTRY 1862

BATTLE OF SEVEN PINES

Following is a complete list of the casualties of the Regiment...

Killed: 1st Lieut. James Hamilton, Co. H; 2d Lieut. Thompson S. Purviance, Co. E ; Corp. John Conn, Co. H ; Corp, James Sidney Hackney, Co. I ; Corp. Alexander C. Morgan, Co. D.

Privates: Colin W. Barr, Co. A; William Braden, Co. B; William Hare, Co. H; Lindsey Hartman, Co. E; William G. Howard, Co. B; Richard F. Lewis, Co. F ; John Reily, Co. B ; Jacob Younkin, Co. B.

Died from Wounds: 2d Lieut. Julius A. Smith, Co. B; Sergt. John N. Donagho, Co. D; Privates: Robert H. Byers, Co. A; Cornelius Estep, Co. F; John B. Hayden, Co. B; Abraham B. lams, Co. B; John Low, Co. A; John A. McMillan, Co. A ; Asberry Phillips, Co. G ; Meeker Rinehart, Co. F.

https://archive.org/stream/historyofeightyf00dick/historyofeightyf0...

Brigadier General Silas Casey at the Battle of Seven Pines

This article was written by Gary Schreckengost and originally appeared in the May 2002 issue of America’s Civil War magazine.

Nearly 50 years after the fact, the legacy of the Battle of Seven Pines still caused one old Union veteran’s blood to boil. ‘No large body of troops engaged in the Civil War was treated with greater injustice than [Brig. Gen. Silas] Casey’s division of the 4th Army Corps, attached to the Army of the Potomac during the Peninsular campaign…,’ wrote Corporal Luther S. Dickey, who as a member of the 103rd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment of Casey’s division had fought at Seven Pines. ‘No battle of the Civil War has been more misrepresented than the battle of [Seven Pines]…yet, when the final word is written of the battles between the North and the South, the battle which occurred May 31, 1862, will head the list of the decisive contests of the Civil War, and the division which was made the scapegoat for the [fight] will receive credit for doing more to frustrate the plans of the Confederate commander than any other division engaged in the battle.’

[rest of article at link]

http://www.historynet.com/brigadier-general-silas-casey-at-the-batt...

History of the Eighty-fifth regiment Pennsylvania volunteer infantry, 1861-1865 comprising an authentic narrative of Casey's division at the Battle of Seven Pines; Dickey, Luther S. (Luther Samuel), b. 1846; New York: [J. C. & W. E. Powers], 1915

http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?c=pitttext;...