Social History & Noah Wyle's Civil War Ancestry on "Who Do You Think You Are?"

I remember Noah Wyle from his days portraying a wide-eyed medical student on "ER."
Last night on "Who
Do You Think You Are?" we saw him tracking down his third-great-grandfather J.H.
Mills, who served the Confederacy in the Civil War and fought in the bloody Battle
of Shiloh.
Later, in Mississippi, newspaper articles show J.H. was a prominent, well-liked citizen.
But he killed himself when he couldn't make a premium payment for his life insurance
policy, which under a then-common "deferred divi