Thank you so very much. William H. Hall also enlisted August 10. 1861 in Memphis with William W. Mobley. They were both in the First Battalion Mississippi Sharpshooters. Both of them lived in Marshall county, Ms. William H. Hall was born in Fairfield county, S.C. but moved with his family to Ms. in 1847. I would like to find the enlistment roster for this Company to see what his age was, I believe he was born in 1820 or 1821 in South Carolina, His father was Laban Hall of DeSoto county, Ms.
On one of his cards in his military papers, it states that he was one of the prisoners on the steamboat, Minnehaha and was put off the boat at Greenwood, Ms. He was put off with no rations, no supplies of any kind The other prisoners on the steamboat numbered 850 and supposedly taken to either
Memphis or Helena. Several prisoners were put off the boat and they made their way home to Marshall county, then after he got better, he went back to his unit. The prisoners on the boat were sick and the townspeople tried to help them by furnishing some food and bedding, however most of them needed medicine because they were sick and dehydrated and half starved to death.
This was reported by Lt. W.L. Nugent and General Pemberton so he ordered a surgeon with medicine and comforts for the soldiers.