Confederate Soldier
Company B, 27th MS Inf. Reg

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Simpson County Historical & Genealogical Society:
(from their Facebook page, 21 Jan 2019)

This old headstone at Old Good Hope Cemetery belongs to man who saw a lot of war.

Private William H. Prine 1835-1906 who lived in Weathersby until his passing.

Enlisted into Company B (Rosin Heels) 27th Mississippi Volunteer Infantry at Jones County, Mississippi on April 10, 1861.

He served through-out the movements and battles of the 27th up until the Battle of Stones River or Murfreesboro, Tennessee when he was wounded.

His records state he was in the “Corn Field” meaning he was involved in the assault on Union General Sheridan’s position. This would be a bloody killing ground where many Mississippians would die and be wounded by the hundreds.

He was wounded in the right hand so severely that the Confederate surgeons on the field determined to leave him on the battlefield to be captured by the Union forces and let them treat him.

After capture he was sent to Nashville, Tenn. He was then forwarded to the U.S. Army hospital at Louisville, Kentucky on Feb. 15, 1863 where he was operated on and his right forearm amputated. He then was forwarded to the notorious POW Camp Morton Ohio on February 25, 1863. He was placed on parole and forwarded to City Point, Virginia for prisoner exchange on April 12th 1863. He was accepted and forwarded to the Confederate States Hospital at Petersburg, Virginia on May 20, 1863 and furloughed (sent home). Sometime in the summer of 1863 he again reported to his original unit now in Georgia.

He was sent to Buckner Hospital, Newman Georgia and declared “incapable of performing the duties of a soldier, because of his having lost his right hand in the consequence of a wound received the 31st day of December 1862 in the Battle of Murfreesboro, Tenn.” On November 22, 1863 he was discharged from the Confederate Army by General Bragg.