Jacob Miller, a private with Company K, 9th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, was injured during the Battle of Chickamauga in Georgia on September 19, 1863. He was shot through the head by a Confederate sniper, the bullet striking him right between the eyes and lodged in his skull. As he tried to retreat to safety, he was pitied by a Confederate soldier who gave him some water and directed him to the Union line. He eventually passed out along the roadside, and he was picked up by carriers who stretchered him to a nearby hospital. He was transported to various hospitals, who refused to operate on his head. He was discharged, and once home, his local doctors were able to remove the musket ball from his head. He eventually lost vision in his left eye, experienced various symptoms from his condition, and pieces of shrapnel continued to drop out of the wound years later.
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