From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (PIONEERS & PATRIOTS: Anderson County Military Servicemen, Revolutionary War - WWI)
Miller, James
(born: c. 1849) James Miller was born a slave in Kentucky about 1849; he appears on the 1870 Anderson County census as a 25-year old black male with a wife, Sarah, and a young son, William, and an infant daughter, Emma.During the American Civil War, James was a very young man, no more than twelve or thirteen years old when the war began, but as the war years progressed and the Federal government called for the enlistment of colored regiments, James walked away from the fields to make his way to the nearest enlistment point. Official Adjutant records identify no fewer than 39 James Millers, and of that number, five were enrolled at Camp Nelson.
Although his actual unit could not be ascertained, he most likely served as a private in Company F of the 12th U.S. Colored Heavy Artillery Regiment. (Other black men from Anderson County also served with this company.) A regimental history of the 12th indicates it was organized at Camp Nelson on July 15, 1864. It never served outside the state, seeing garrison duty at Camp Nelson, Bowling Green, and other points in the state until April 1866, when it was mustered from service.
After the war James returned to Lawrenceburg and on May 13, 1866 was married in Anderson County to Miss Sarah Ripy. Following the Civil War, it was necessary to maintain a military presence in the local area, and a militia was enrolled and active between 1865-1869. According to the Anderson County Clerk's Office, James Miller was a member of that militia.