Siege of Vicksburg Confederate Soldier Laid to Rest After 152 Years

Confederate soldier gets proper funeral 152 years after he died 
By The Associated Press
 October 01, 2015

More than 150 years after his death, Pvt. Preston C. Wall has finally gotten a proper funeral.

John C. Pemberton Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans members Wayne McMaster and Bryan Skipworth unveil the tombstone of Pvt. Preston C. Wall, during a funeral ceremony, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2015 in Vicksburg, Miss. The Confederate soldier from Company C of the Missouri Infantry, died June 29, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg.
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The Vicksburg Post reports Wall, a Confederate soldier from Company C of the Missouri Infantry, died June 29, 1863, during the Siege of Vicksburg.

He was 23, but was already a seasoned combat veteran. Wall was never married and left behind no descendants.

John C. Pemberton Camp of Sons of Confederate Veterans recently put up a stone in Cedar Hill Cemetery in his honor and formally unveiled the white granite stone Tuesday during a private ceremony with the family.

"It's just nice to have a family member that finally has a marker and some way of memorializing him. We're celebrating the life Preston had," said John Wall of Washington, a descendant of one of Preston Wall's brothers.

More than 5,000 Confederate soldiers are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, though most were buried in mass graves. There were nearly 20,000 Confederate and Union soldiers listed as missing dead or wounded during the Siege of Vicksburg.
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