The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1911-08-11
THE VETS IN SESSION

Marion camp, NO. 90, U. I. ", met
at 10 a. M, August Sth
The commander and adjutant being
absent, Comrade W. Ii. Henry was
requested to take command and Com
rade Alfred Aver to act as adjutant.
The following members answered
to roll call: Alfred Aver, G. W. Bray,
F. w. Bitch, J. L. Beck, J. H. Bill
Kingsley R. V. Evans, L. NJ. Graham,
L. D. Geiger, w. H. Henry, ]. L. Hin
ton, R. A. Kelsey, w. Fitzpatrick, NJ.
P. Frink, B. |. Freyermuth, J. w.
Lyles, H. w. Long, w. E. McGahagin,
w. P. Norman, E. w. Mcdonald,
John Pasteur. c. c. Priest, H. R.
Shaw, c. c. Stephens, James Sims, j.
D. Williams, J. S. Weathers.
Reading of minutes was dispensed
with.
Gen. Long read resolution in re-
gard to reinstating members who
were improperly stricken from roll,
which was laid on the table, to be
taken up at our next regular meeting.
Gen. Long then read the commit
tees report in memoriam of Adjutant
Miller, which was as follows:
In Memoriam of comrade Daniel A..
Miller
Comrade Daniel A. Miller was born
in Winnsboro, Fairfield District, S.
c., in November, 1S45. He was a son
of Col. Hugh Miller, who served in
the Mexican war of 1S47, and distin-
guished himself for gallant services
in that war. Comrade Miller after
having been educated In part in a
school of his native town, entered the
Citadel Military school of Charles
ton, S. c., where he remained as a
cadet until the tocsin of war of the
sixties called for troops to the front
from his native state, in response to
which, at the tender age of sixteen
years he volunteered as a member of
Company G, 9Th regiment OF South
Carolina infantry of the Confederacy
for one year, in November, 1861. du--
ing which time he made a gallant sol
der in the army of Virginia. He
then returned to Charleston, and re-
entered the military school at that
place. 1t being a military organiZa-
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federate services in the defense Of
Fort Sumter, where he remained I'M
til Sherman's army, by way of Sa-
vannah, Georgia, entered South Caro-
lima whose line of march could be de-
fined by the lurid flames of burning
dwellings, barns, mills, towns and cit-
les thereby leaving ruin, devastation,
and almost famine among the peo-
pie. His command was ordered in
front of General Sherman's trium-
plant army, where it rendered gal
liant service in General Joseph e.
Johnson's army in it's efforts to repel
and defeat General Sherman. After
General Johnsons surrender in North
Carolina in May, 1865, he returned to
his home, and finding nothing but de
vastation and gloom to greet him, he
came to Florida, and after prospect
ing in Sumter county he came to
Ocala and secured a position with E.
w. Agnew & Co., as bookkeeper. Be-
ing a man of good business qualifica-
tons he soon entered the mercantile
business for himself, and succeeded.
He served efficiently as county com-
missioner of Marion county from Ian
uary, 1888, to January, 1889, during
which time he was chairman.
Being the nominee of the democrat
ic party for the office of clerk of the
circuit court in 1888, he canvassed
the county with a candidate for each
office to be filed for the county, lid
by the chairman of the county demo
cratic executive committee, with a
fixed determination to throw off car
pet bag rule and establish a white
mans government. In this canvas, at
Summerfield, the lamented Bittinger,
by invitation, joined the canvas,
whose voice rang out in clarion notes
at all of the appointments of tie
county for the success of the nom!-
nees canvassing, which captivated his
audiences, made them his friends,
and brought him into favorable To-
toriety throughout the county. Com
rade Miller had as his opponent a
gentleman of pleasing address and
polished manners. He, together with
all democratic candidates. made 6.
stirring and enthusiastic canvas, and
swept the county for the first time in
| twenty years, he leading his oppC-
nent by 400 votes. He filed that Of
flee two terms and all other official
position held by him were filed with
efficiency and acceptability to all the
people of the county. He was a man