Prince enlisted as a private in the Huger Grays, Co. F of the 12th VA Infantry, on May 8, 1861. He was hospitalized on June 15, 1862 at Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA with dysentery and then transferred tot he Confederate States Hospital in Petersburg, VA, where he deserted on September 19, 1862. He is listed as AWOL through the fall of 1862, but returned in November. Prince furnished a substitute on March 31, 1863 and was discharged.
After the war, he was a farmer in Greensville County, VA. Prince died in 1880.
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