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Creation Date
7-14-2012
Description
Charles James Munnerlyn Marker, Decatur County, GA.
This marker is located South of Bainbridge at Green Shade Road, in Decatur County, Georgia, was erected for Charles James Munnerlyn 1822-1898.
It reads as :
" CHARLES JAMES MUNNERLYN 1822-1898
As a delegate to the Georgia Convention at Milledgeville, he voted for secession. After the start of the Civil War, he volunteered as a private. When his health failed he returned home and was elected to the Confederate Congress where he served from1862 to 1864. His re-election bid was defeated because he voted for the Conscript Law. He then re-entered the Confederate army as a private but was soon promoted to major through the influence of Jefferson Davis. When surrender came he was a lieutenant colonel."
Latitude, Longitude
30.78978056, -84.61281944
Recommended Citation
Taylor, George Lansing Jr., "Charles James Munnerlyn Marker, Decatur County, GA" (2012). George Lansing Taylor Collection Main Gallery. 3008.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/3008
