Below is a pic of the bullet Ron is speaking about. Here is what we have on his wounding and death as provided by his descendent Anna Fuller...

"Thomas Jefferson Price, Company B, 7th Mississippi Infantry, was born October 10, 1833. He served as a Private in Company B of 7th Mississippi Infantry. He died at home from wounds received during the war. The family still has the minnie ball that he carried home in his neck. He was shot April 6, 1862 at the Battle of Shiloh in Tennessee. He was wounded in the arm, shoulder and neck. To have the ball embedded as it was he must have been about to fire his rifle to have received the wound and have the ball embedded as it was. He fell near the "Bloody Pond." This was the pond that turned red from the blood of the wounded and dying men who came seeking a drink of water.

Thomas survived the march to Corinth following the second and last day of that battle on April 7, 1862 but the doctors there could not remove the bullet. At Thomas's insistence, they allowed him to return home to today's Pleasant Hill Community near Bogue Chitto, Lincoln County, Miss. Because of all the trash the minnie ball had carried into the wound (mud, cloth, germs, other debris), the wound became horribly infected. Soon after returning home, he died on May 2, 1862. His wife Lydia, the daughter of Joseph (Joe) Price and Nancy Herrington, never remarried. She died April 6, 1919. This was the anniversary of Thomas being mortally wounded. She was buried beside her husband.

Thomas Jefferson Price's first burial was in the family cemetery of the Calvin Brister home place (near his own home). About 1965, he and Lydia were moved to the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, Lincoln County, Mississippi.