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Confederate Section, Cave Hill Cemetery

This cemetery is a beautiful landmark in Louisville, KY. It is a huge, gorgeous area of lush plantings, large trees and grassy, rolling hills. The Confederate section is situated around a beautiful large monument that honors the KY soldiers who fought in the Civil War.

Pvt. Philip Grable Trunnell, 2nd KY Cavalry, Company C

Pat Payne, Arleen Stillman, Barbara Gaddis and Jean Whitney visiting P.G. Trunnell's grave - it is the one in the middle. The inscription reads as quoted above.

Phillip Grable Trunnell Obituary from the Louisville papers

WITH COMRADES

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Dr. Phillip G. Trunnell, Old Soldier, Plans Own Funeral

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Arrangements Made Before Death Yesterday

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Wanted to be
Buried Beside Other Confederates

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WIDELY-KNOWN LOUISVILLIAN

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Dr. Phillip G. Trunnell, one of the youngest soldiers of the Confederacy, former School Trustee and prominent physician, is dead at his home at 914 South Fifteenth Street. Death occurred yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock after a short illness of Bright’s disease. Six weeks ago on his sixty-sixth birthday anniversary Dr. Trunnell made all arrangements for his funeral and wrote a letter to Maj. John H. Leathers requesting that his body be allowed to rest with those of his comrades of the South in Cave Hill cemetery.

Dr. Trunnell served throughout the entire Civil War in the famous Orphan Brigade. When he enlisted he was but slightly over 14 years of age and is said to have been the youngest soldier that Kentucky gave to the South.

Joined Confederates in 1861

It was in the summer of 1861 that young Trunnell ran away from his father’s farm in Bullitt county and joined the Confederate forces near Bowling Green. He followed the flag of the “lost cause” throughout the conflict and after the close of hostilities came to Louisville where he attended school. In 1872 he graduated from the University of Louisville and had practiced medicine in Louisville for forty-one years.

It was on the physician’s birthday anniversary, February 28, that he planned his funeral arrangements although he was apparently well and had been attending to his practice. He wrote to Maj. Leathers and to his friend Dr. George Simpson. Of Dr. Simpson he asked that his brother physicians see that his wishes were carried out.

Pallbearers Are Chosen

Fred Hatzel, Walter Hatzel, Joseph and Conrad Ploppert, young men at whose birth the physician officiated, are named among the active pallbearers. John Baird, dramatic editor of the Louisville Times, Dr. George Simpson and D. T. Smith also were named as pallbearers. A request that he be buried from the undertaking establishment of Lee Cralle, also was contained in the letter to Dr. Simpson.

Besides his wife, who was Miss Margaret Weise, of Providence, R.I., Dr. Trunnell is survived by two half-brothers, Neal and Thomas Trunnell, of Bardstown Junction.

The funeral, which will be carried out in accordance with the wishes of the physician, will be held to-morrow morning at 10:30 o’clock, and the burial will be in the Confederate lot in Cave Hill cemetery.