Prentiss Ingraham [SEP] cause of death
Dunbar", "Dangerfield Burr", "Major Henry B. Stoddard", "Colonel Leon Lafitte", "Frank Powell", "Harry Dennies Perry", "Midshipman Tom W. Hall", "Lieut. Preston Graham".
Death.
Prentiss Ingraham spent his final days at the Beauvoir Confederate Home in Biloxi, Mississippi where he died of Bright's Disease, known to modern medicine as nephritis, on August 16, 1904, aged 60.
Prentiss Ingraham
Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (December 28, 1843 – August 16, 1904) was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a mercenary throughout the 1860s, and a fiction writer.
Biography.
Prentiss Ingraham, the son of Rev. Joseph Ingraham (author of A Prince of the House of David), was born near Natchez, Mississippi in Adams County. He studied at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Maryland, and at Jefferson College, Mississippi.
Later he entered the Mobile Medical College, but soon