Henry Rust Mighels (November 5, 1830 – May 27, 1879) was an American journalist and politician.
He served in the Union Army during the American Civil War as assistant adjutant general, with the rank of captain, and was wounded in action.
His one book, Sage Brush Leaves (1879), consists of literary essays.
[2] He died of cancer in 1879 in Carson City and is buried at Lone Mountain Cemetery next to his wife Nellie Verrill Mighels Davis (who subsequently married Samuel Post Davis).
[3][4] Philip's ex-wife, Ella Sterling Mighels, was the "First Literary Historian of California".