Background
He was the great-grandson of William Mills, a soldier in the American Revolution who enlisted in January 1776 and served seven years in Captain Caleb North"s Company under Colonel Anthony Wayne.
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Career
The fortification on Corregidor Island, the Philippines, was designated a United States Military Reservation in 1907 and named Fort Mills in Brigadier General Mills"s honor. Douglas MacArthur in February 1945. In Mills"s honor, the USAMP General Samuel M. Mills, Junior., a United States. Army mine planter ship, was built in 1908-1909 by the New York Shipbuilding Company of Camden, New Jersey, for the Submarine Mine Service of the United States Army Coast Artillery Corps, a division of the United States Army, Office of the Quartermaster General.
After being retrofitted as a cable ship, she was renamed the USCGC Pequot and during World World War II laid cable along the eastern seaboard of the United States, bolstering United States defenses.
