FOURTH GENERATION

127. William Pinckney Rutledge Jr. was born in Aug 1842 in Washington County, Texas. He died on 3 May 1863 in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois. He was buried in Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois.
W. P. Rutledge died on May 3, 1863, in a Union prison at Camp Butler, Springfield, Illinois, and is buried there at marker # 806 CS. He had joined Company G, 6th Regiment Texas Infantry as a private and was captured at Ark Post, Arkansas on January 11, 1863.