Thomas Pratt Turner
Enlisted on 5/15/1861 as a Private.
He was listed as:
* Served (date and place not stated) (Under General Stonewall Jackson)
* Served Libby Prison, Richmond, VA (date not stated) (As Warden)
* Served Richmond Prisons, Richmond, VA (date not stated) (As Provost Marshal in charge)
Promotions:
* 2nd Lieut 5/15/1861 (In Provisional Army of VA)
* 1st Lieut 8/21/1861 (C. S. A. age 21, 5 mos)
* Capt 7/16/1862
* Major 11/23/1862
He also had service in:
Unassigned VA 1st Battn Infantry (Claimed service in Irish Battalion)
Other Information:
died 12/26/1900 in Memphis, TN
Buried: Odd Fellows Cemetery, Memphis, TN
(Entered USMA Jul 1, 1860 age 18 and 7 mos. Resigned
June 61 age 21. Grad VMI 1862. Postwar, Dentist,
Memphis, TN)
Sources used by Historical Data Systems, Inc.:
- The Virginia Regimental Histories Series
Note, the notation that he graduated from VMI 1862 must be an error. He attended VMI for two years before entering West Point. Also, his burial appears to be in Clarksville, Tenn.
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Born in King george Co. Va., ca. 1840, entered VMI Aug. 26, 1858, but resigned April 10, 1860, after receiving an appointment to USMA, West Point. He attended West Point from July 1, 1860 to April 22, 1861, when he resigned to join the Confederate Army, After serving as a drill master in Richmond, Va. in the spring of 1861, he served on the staff of BGen. T. J. Jackson. He was later assigned as Provost Marshal in Lynchburg and later Richmond, Va., and in nov. 12862 he was appointed commandant of Libby Prison in Richmond, Va. Promoted to Captain on July 16, 1862 and then Major on Nov. 23, 1862. On March 15, 1865, he was authorized to raise Negro troops. After the war he became a dentist, and apparently resided in Texas in 1870. He died at the Odd Fellow Retirement Home in Clarksville, Tenn., Dec. 26, 1900.
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Here are two citations for his letters
Turner, Thomas Pratt, Letter, 1900. 1 item. Mss2T8582a1.
A letter, 6 January 1900, from Thomas Pratt Turner (b. 1840?) of Memphis, Tenn., to Edith Dabney (Tunis) Sale (1876–1932) concerning Turner's role as supervisor of the Confederate military prisons in Richmond (Libby and Belle Isle prisons) and including brief descriptions of the following members of his staff: Virginius Bossieux, John Latouche (1820–1890), Erasmus W. Ross (1841–1871), and Richard R. Turner.
Turner, Thomas Pratt, Receipts, 1863. 4 items. Mss2T8582b.
Receipts, 1863, signed by Thomas Pratt Turner (b. 1840?), issued to Union soldiers for money confiscated while imprisoned at Libby Prison, Richmond.
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