Milo Walbridge Grow, was born at Craftsbury, Vermont, on March 28, 1825, grew up in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.

Milo had moved to Georgia by 1853, when he advertised the opening of aschool in Albany, Ga.

Milo moved to Colquitt, Georgia in the late 1850s and married Sarah Catherine Baughn on December 13, 1860, in Miller County, Georgia, on the eve of Lincoln's inauguration and the outbreak of the Civil War.

On December 24, Alabama voted to secede. On January 19, 1861, Georgia seceded. The Confederacy was created in February 1861. Wedding music was quickly followed by the music of war.

Milo enlisted in the Confederate Army, Company D, 51st Regiment, "Miller Guards," on March 15, 1862. Click here for a sketch of hisregiment's role in the war.

Kate bore their only child--Roy Walbridge Grow, on Oct 31, 1861. Roy was five months old when his father left for the war, not to return.

According to family history, Milo was captured at Gettysburg July 3, 1863, after being wounded the previous day.

He was taken to Fort Delaware, Del., and thence to the new Northern prisoner of war camp at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died Jan. 24, 1864.

Here is a letter to the editor lamenting the conditions at Point Lookout. Here is a website on Point Lookout. There is an organization of descendants of Point Lookout prisoners. Milo Grow's name appears in their listing of those who died there.

Milo is buried in the family plot in St. Johnsbury, Vermont.

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