Posted on 12/08/2007 10:54:00 PM PST by stainlessbanner
The life of Ike Pringle has become a sort of enigma for local historians who are trying to figure out exactly what role the slave played in the American Civil War.
Born in May, 1841, Isaac, or Ike as he was better known, was owned by the Pringle family that lived and owned land around Vimville. Ike took on the name of his owners and was forever called Ike Pringle.
At an early age he was given to the grandson of the family, Frank Pringle. Not that far apart in age, the two basically grew up together until the Civil War began. At that time, Frank Pringle joined the 24th Mississippi. Ike Pringle followed him into service. Some say Ike Pringle followed on his own accord and out of obligation to Frank Pringle.
Both men survived the war and were in Atlanta when the last cannons fell silent. From that moment on, Ike Pringle was a free man. Frank Pringle gave him his freedom there and moved to Pensacola, Fla., according to records. But Ike Pringle decided to return home to Vimville.
In the years following the war, Ike Pringle built up a farm on 80 acres that originally belonged to the Pringle family. He eventually sold the land but even as he married several times raising a family while keeping up the farm, Ike Pringle routinely attended Confederate soldier reunions as a veteran. It has been noted that Ike Pringle was never wounded nor have any documentations been discovered to suggest he was a combatant or was always kept in the rear area.
Some historians would suggest Ike Pringle was indeed kept in the rear areas to care for Frank Pringle’s belongings and to serve his owner any way possible during the fighting. But the fact he was allowed to attend numerous Confederate soldiers reunions, such as the one in Pine Bluff, Arkansas in 1937, which shows him pictured with a group of other white soldiers, seems to tell the viewer he was at the very least accepted near the battlefield in some form or fashion.
A narrative written by Ike Pringle in 1937 said he had traveled to many such reunions. A photo taken on the front steps of the Lauderdale County Court House in October 1933 with the Walthal Camp of Confederate Veterans only reinforces the fact he was a member of Confederate organizations. Ike Pringle also appears in a photo of another such gathering in 1925.
Ike Pringle died on Feb. 28, 1938. No grave marker has been found for him in a nondescript cemetery in Lauderdale County although more recent stones have been found with other people named Pringle.
So what was the role Ike Pringle played in the Civil War?
Many of the details are still unknown at this time but whatever his role was, it was enough for the State of Mississippi to grant Ike Pringle a pension in 1920 for being a member of the Confederate army during the Civil War.
But that's not what you said. You claimed the South entered into trade agreements with foreign powers that made it cheaper to import their goods rather than purchase domestic goods. How can some states enter into agreements that other states do not have access to, and how can that be possible under the Constitution?
Now, if you want to say the U.S. traded with Europe then I have no problem agreeing with that.
Read some basic American economic history.
I have, and would suggest you do so as well.
Southern interests imported a great deal from Europe as part of the trade contracts they had for Southern cotton (especially) and other goods.
For example? What was it they were importing from Europe? Are you suggesting that the South was so backwards that they had a barter economy? So many bales of cotton in exchange for a diningroom set, something liek that?
Many Southern mercantile interests agreed to pay the tariffs (or a portion of them) for the Europeans in order to keep up commerce (such practices are even practiced today in some sectors).
And your source for this is what? And if it is true then why weren't the Southern mercantile interests bringing the goods into their own ports and paying the tariffs there?
Southern merchants purchased the goods that were affected by the protective tariffs, and thus had to pay them.
Everybody did.
Really, non-sequitur, everyone on FR knows of your utter contempt and disdain for anything Southern...
And your utter contempt and disdain for the North is duly noted. But what bugs me the most is the Southron contempt and disdain for the truth and their presentation on fairy tale as fact.
I’m through with you. Go back to your mother’s basement and don’t bother the adults anymore. And go back to school!
Poor baby. Someone questions your fantasy world and you start blubbering about it. You problem is that you want the right to say anything, no matter how ridiculous, and have the rest of us accept it as fact. Well, we're not fools, no matter what you may believe. We know when things make no sense and when they don't we expect you to explain yourself. Well go away and sulk if you wish, it isn't the first time you've thrown a tantrum and I doubt it will be the last. And when you want to play with the big boys we'll be here for you.
I see that you are back from the Democratic Underground.
I see you're still supporting the democrat rebellion.
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