Editing Francis Davis Millet (section)

==Early life==
Francis Davis Millet was born in [[Mattapoisett, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book|last= Moore |first= Charles|author-link= Charles Herbert Moore |editor= Malone, Dumas|title=Dictionary of American Biography |publisher= Charles Scribner's Sons |location=New York |volume=12 (McCrady-Millington) |year=1933 |chapter= Millet, Francis Davis |chapter-url=https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofamer12amer#page/644/mode/2up|pages=644–646   |access-date=July 21, 2018|via= Internet Archive }}</ref>  Most sources give his date of birth as November 3, 1846, but a diary which he kept during his military service stated that November 3, 1864 was his 16th birthday, suggesting his year of birth was 1848.<ref name = "Diary" /> At age fifteen, Millet entered the 60th Massachusetts Infantry, first as a [[Drummer boy (military)|drummer]] and then a surgical assistant (helping his father, a surgeon) in the [[American Civil War]].

He repeatedly pointed to his experience working for his father as giving him an appreciation for the vivid blood red that he frequently used in his early paintings. Millet graduated from [[Harvard]] with a Master of Arts degree. He worked as a reporter and editor for the ''[[Boston Courier]]'' and then as a correspondent for the ''Advertiser'' at the Philadelphia [[Centennial Exposition]].