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A BRILLIANT RECORD.
General Mills Record as an Officer is
One to be Proud of.
WAR DEPARTMENT

| WAR DEPARTMENT
| AdjutanI Generals Office. !
WASHINGTON, February "a, 1897.
| Statement OF The military service vi
Arson Mills, OF the United States ar
my, compiled from the records of this
office.
He was a cadet at the U. S. Military
Academy, July l, 1866, to February s,
1897.
! He was appointed
lst lieutenant, 18th infantry, 14th
) May, 1861.
! Captain, 9th April, 1853.
! Transferred to 5rd cavalry, lst Jan
uary, 1911.
Major, IOth cavalry, 4th April, 1878.
| Lieut.. colonei, Avn cavalry 10th March
| 1S9U.
Colonel, Bird cavalry, 10Th August,
1892.
He was brevettsd, captain, }lst Dec
| emper, 1867, for gallant and merltor-
| 1ous services In the battle OF Murfrees-
| boro, Tenn, major, lst Sept I'M Ger, 1864,
| Tor gallant anu meriJOriuus services il
the uaS, lie OF Cnlckamauga, Ga, and
ouriog the Atlanta campaign, Lieut..
colonel, 18th December, lo64, for gal
! liant ana merltOrIOus services in the
| battle of Nashville, Tenn, and colonel,
zIth FEBRUARY, 1881, for gallant Ser
vices In action against Indians, at Slim
Buttes, Dakota, september y, 1876.
| SERVICE.
| he was on recruiting service July 10,
| 6l 10 February II, rs, with q regi-
ment in army of the Ohio, and depart
ment OF the Cumberland, to October %,
| 1864, and Acting InspectOr-Genera,,
! district of EtOwan, to February 25,
1860. He participated IN the siege Of
| Corlntn, April 18th 20 Juns 5, 1867; bat
ties OF Perry vile, KY, October 8, 1862,
| Murireesooro, lem, December 70,
1862, 40 January +, 1853; HoDver's Gap,
Tenn., June 20 and 70, 1868; Chicka-
| mauga, Ga, September ~ and 20, 1873;
| Der Il, 10 November 4, 1868; Missionary
Ridge, Tenn, Novem -er "A and 25,
| 1865; Tunnel Hill, Ga, February. 70
ana "A, 1864; Buzzard's Roost, Ca,
February 70 and 70, 1864: Atlanta Cam
palgn, May to SepLem Der 3, 1864; Res
| a;a, Ga, May IL TO Is, 1864; Dallas,
| Ga, May "A 20 June 3, 1864; New Hope
Church, Ca, May 20 to 81, 1864; Kene-
saw Mountain, June y to July 3, 1864:
Tree Creek, CD, July 20, 1864, where
| ne Was slightly wounded: Joy Creek,
Ca, August 7, 1864; Jonesboro, Ga,
september l, 1864, and Nashville
Tenn Dece IL Der 10 and IL, 1864.
He Was On recruiting service from
February %, 1865, to NOvem Der Is. 1865,
when he reJolned his regiment ana
served with it in Kansas to March,
1906; on leave to . ctober. 1866. (mem-
Der Of board of visitors at U. S. MlIi-
tary academy in June, 1869 with regl-
ment at Fort Bridger, Wyo., to OcLo-
Der, 1867, and at Fort t'etterman,
Wyo., to May 10, 1868; on leave to July
III, 1865; with regiment at Fort Sedg-
wick, Colo, to April, 1869, and in
Georgia and South Carolina to January
10, 1871.
He joined the 3rd cavalry, April 15,
1871, and served with it in Arizona, 10
December l, 1871.
He commanded his troop at Fort Nc
Pherson, Neb., January II to May l,
!o'z; at North Platte, Nebraska, ton
leave Decembe 2, 1872, to March 9,
1872 to August ID, 1874: in the fela
commanding the Big Horn expedition,
to october IL, 1874; on leave to January
~, 1871; commanding troop and post at
North Platte, Nebraska, to April IA,
1870; at Camp Sheridan, Nebraska, to
November 70, 1915; at Fort d. A. Rus
sell, Wyoming, lin field February 81
TO April rs, 1876, being engaged in
action against Indians at Little Powder
III, er, Montana, March II, 1861 to
May 10, 1876; commanding battalion of
regiment In the field on expedition
against hostile Indians, to October "a,
1876, beng engaged against them at
Tongue river, Montana, June 8, at
Rose Bud river, Montana, June II, and
at Slim Buttes, OAK, September 3,
1876, where ne commanded, y command
ing his tt oop a6 Camp Sheridan, Ne
oraska, November, 1876, to May q,
1877, and on leave OF absence TO Feb.
ruary y, 1878; on duty in Paris, France,
with the U. s. com missioner, Paris
'exposition, to November, 1878, and on
delay to March, 1879,