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Cdv of 1st Minnesota Infantry Colonel (General) Stephen Miller. Wear as shown, no b/m (hand written photographer attribution).

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"Civil War Union Brigadier General, Minnesota Governor. Born in Carroll, Pennsylvania, at the start of the Civil War, he enlisted as a Private in the Minnesota Volunteers and was promoted Colonel of the 1st Minnesota Infantry in April 1861. He served in actions during the Peninsula Campaign and was promoted Brigadier General in October 1864. He resigned his commission when elected the fourth Governor of Minnesota, serving 1864 to 1866."

"...During the Civil War, Miller, a middle-aged soldier with no previous military experience, advanced rapidly from the rank of private to colonel in the 1st Minnesota Infantry. In 1862 Miller returned from the South and replaced Brig. Gen. Henry Hastings Sibley as commander of Mankato's Camp Lincoln. There, 303 Dakota men, convicted of participating in the Dakota War of 1862, awaited their fate. Four months later, Miller supervised, by order of President Lincoln, the mass execution of 38 Dakotas condemned for their part in the war..."