What is Dixon S. Miles?
[[File:Dixon S. Miles.jpg|thumb|right|250px|{{Center|U.S. Colonel Dixon S. Miles}}]] '''Dixon Stansbury Miles''' (May 4, 1804–September 16, 1862) was an [[officer]] in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War]].<ref name=AOTW>{{cite web |url=http://antietam.aotw.org/officers.php?officer_id=1088 |title=Dixon Stansbury Miles |publisher=Antietam on the Web |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref> He commanded a [[division (military)|division]] in the [[First Battle of Bull Run]].<ref name=CWT>{{cite web |url=http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/dixon-miles.html |title=Dixon S. Miles |publisher=Civil War Trust |access-date=30 June 2016 |archive-date=15 June 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160615231347/http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/biographies/dixon-miles.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> He was the [[commander]] of the [[Harpers Ferry Armory|Federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry]] during the [[Battle of Harpers Ferry]].<ref name=CWT/> He died from [[shrapnel]] wounds the day after the Union [[garrison]] [[surrender (military)|surrender]]ed.<ref name=CWT/> == Early career == Miles was born in [[Baltimore, Maryland]] on May 4, 1804.<ref name=NPS>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/resources/person.htm?id=218 |title=Dixon Stansbury Miles |website=Harpers Ferry National Historical Park |publisher=National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref> He was a [[cadet]] at the [[United States Military Academy at West Point]] from June 24, 1819, to July 1, 1824.<ref name=Cullums1824>{{cite web |url=http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Gazetteer/Places/America/United_States/Army/USMA/Cullums_Register/387*.html |title=Class of 1824 |author=Bill Thayer |website=George W. Cullum's Biographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, since its establishment in 1802 |publisher=University of Chicago |access-date=30 June 2016}}</ref> He was [[wikt:commission|commission]]ed a [[brevet (military)|