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Colonel Prentiss Ingraham (December 28, 1843 – August 16, 1904) was a Colonel in the Confederate Army, a professional military officer throughout the 1860s and a fiction writer. ==Biography== Prentiss Ingraham was born near Natchez, Mississippi in Adams County. He studied at St. Timothy's Military Academy, Maryland, and at Jefferson College, Mississippi. Later he entered the Mobile Medical College, but soon left to enter the Confederate Army where he became a Colonel in the Adacus Company Regiment.〔(Beauvoir Confederate Soldiers Home Cemetery )〕 He was also commander of scouts in Lawrence Sullivan Ross' Brigade, the Texas Cavalry. After the close of the war, he went to Mexico and fought with Juárez against the French, and still later went to South America. He saw service on General Hoffmann's staff in the Battle of Sadowa, Austria, in 1866 was in Crete against the Turks, and in the Khedive's army in Egypt. In 1869 he went to London but soon came back to the United States and took up with the Cuban rebels against Spain, running the blockade in the ''Hornet'' several times before it was surrendered to the U. S. Navy. He was a Colonel in the Cuban army as well as a Captain in their navy, and was captured, tried as a filibuster and condemned to death by the Spaniards, but escaped.〔(NIU House of Beadle & Adams Online )〕 Ingraham moved to the West where he met up with Buffalo Bill. Ingraham soon worked as an advance agent for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
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