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, Mississippi, Adams County. He studied at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Maryland, and at Jefferson College (Mississippi), Jefferson College, Mississippi. Later he entered the Mobile Medical College, but soon quit to join the Confederate States Army, Confederate Army where he became a Colonel in the Adacus Company Regiment. He was also commander of scouts in Lawrence Sullivan Ross' Brigade, the Texas Cavalry. After the end of the war, he went to Mexico and fought with Benito Juárez, Juárez against the Second French intervention in Mexico, French, and still later went to South America. He had service with General Max Hoffmann's staff in the Battle of Königgrà ...
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