Military Records

Joined for duty and mustered into service on January 15, 1862 in Philadelphia, PA., age 21. Received a musket shot wound in the Second Battle of Bull Run on August 30, 1862. Died on September 12, 1862 at Mount Pleasant Hospital, Washington, D.C. He was buried on September 14, 1862. (Presumably, the body was moved later for burial in St. John’s Cemetery, Hamburg, PA.)

His personal effects were signed for by his brother Willoughby Miller on September 17, 1862. They included the following:
1 undress coat
1 trowsers
1 haversack
1 dipper
1 plate
1 cup
1 looking glass
1 hdkfa (handkerchief)
1 portmona (possibly a portmanteau, i.e. a handled carry-all)
12 cents in money
1 traveling knife
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In “History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5” by Samuel P. Bates (1870) - the death of Emanuel D. Miller is recorded as “August 30, 1862, Killed at Bull Run, VA.”
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Source: Dyer, Frederick H. A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion Compiled and Arranged from Official Records of the Federal and Confederate Armies, Reports of he Adjutant Generals of the Several States, the Army Registers, and Other Reliable Documents and Sources.Des Moines, Iowa: The Dyer Publishing Company, 1908

The Second Regiment of the First Brigade, First Division, Pennsylvania Militia, known during the three months' service as the Nineteenth of the line, and during the three years' service as the Ninetieth, belonged exclusively to the city of Philadelphia. On the 29th of August, at a meeting of the command held at its armory, a resolution was unanimously adopted tendering its services to the government, and on the 3d of September notice was received of its acceptance by the War Department.
A camp of rendezvous was established at Oxford Park, three miles above Frankford, Philadelphia County, where recruiting was vigorously prosecuted. A regimental organization was effected by the choice of the following field officers:
• Peter Lyle, who had commanded it in the three months' service, Colonel;
• William A. Leech, who had been Major of the Seventeenth, Lieutenant Colonel
• Alfred J. Sellers, Major
The line officers, and many of the men, were skilled in militia duty, and had served in the three months' campaign.

At the beginning of December the regiment moved to Camp M'Clellan at Nicetown, where, engaged in drill and camp duty, it remained during the winter.

On the 29th [August, 1862] it moved to Groveton where it stood in line of battle during the day, and on the following morning took position awaiting attack. At two P. A., the enemy seemingly retreating from that part of the field, the brigade was ordered forward, but soon found itself assailed from the rear, and was quickly withdrawn to its first position, where it was hotly engaged. It was brought into position by the left flank, the character of the ground and the haste with which the movement was executed, causing some confusion in the brigade, the regiments in some places overlapping each other.
The enemy bore down in heavy force upon front and left flank, causing the line to yield. General Tower, who led the brigade, was badly wounded, and carried from the field, and his command suffered severely in killed and wounded. At night the regiment, with the army, fell back to Centreville. Its loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners was about two hundred. Captain Jacobs, and Lieutenants Raymond and Harris, were severely wounded. For two weeks the men had marched, with little rest night or day, and were in no condition for a battle, many of the men falling out of the ranks from sheer exhaustion.

Losses:

Regiment lost during service
5 Officers and 98 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and
1 Officer and 126 Enlisted men by disease.
Total 230.