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John Westley Pringle

28 Sep 1839 – 1 Feb 1863

Birth	28 Sep 1839
Death	1 Feb 1863
Cemetery	Memphis National Cemetery Memphis , Shelby County , Tennessee , USA
Added by	Dwaine Desselle on 16 Jun 2023
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/146775094

Bio

John Westley Pringle was the son of John A. & Lucretia Pringle. This memorial is for a young man who valiantly served his country and gave his life in service to the Confederacy during the Civil War and died under conditions most deplorable. John W. enlisted 29 Nov 1862 in the 2nd Mississippi Calvary Regiment, Company C, of the volunteers of Lauderdale Co., MS. He was captured and taken Prisoner of War and transported to the Federal Prison at Memphis, TN, where he died on 1 Feb 1863. The actual events of his capture, the extent of being wounded are not known, but history is recorded about the prison & cemetery as: "Union land & river forces captured Memphis on 6 Jun 1862 & with the surrender the city became the location of several hospitals serving the western theatre of war. The dead from these hospitals were buried in private cemeteries and were reinterred in the Mississippi River National Cemetery. In 1867 the name was changed to the Memphis National Cemetery. Of the 13,965 soldiers buried there, 8,866 are unknown. Source: Civil War Trust, Civil War Discovery Trail Cemeteries/Memphis." After the fall of Memphis in 1862, the Union Army turned a row of buildings on Second St. opposite the Court Square, into a Civil War Prison. As a prison, conditions became so deplorable, it was known as the filthiest place ever occupied by human beings. It was so notorious that it was eventually closed by order of the President himself. John served some 64 days.

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Parents

• John A. Pringle 1804–1867
• Lucretia Ellen (*Nettles??) Pringle 1810–1849 FaG

Siblings

• John A. Pringle Jr 1826–1834
• William Henry Pringle 1830–1867
• Mary Ann Frances Pringle Dixon 1836–1905
• Benjamin Franklin "Ben" Pringle 1837–1917
• Samuel Sylvester "Ceburn" Pringle 1851–1936
• Mathew J. Pringle 1852–1944
• William Alexander "W.A." Pringle 1853–1931
• Christopher Pringle 1854–1867
• George Kennedy Pringle 1858–1952
• Sarah Katherine "Katy" Pringle Buttrill 1858–1936
• Elvira Pringle 1859–1867
• Mary Alice Pringle Everheart 1862–1928
• John Westley Pringle 1863–1937
• Lela "Lila" Pringle 1867–?

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