J.K. Munnerlyn

Confederate (CSV)

Private

James Keen Munnerlyn, Jr.

(1840 - 1922)

Home State: South Carolina

Command Billet: Trooper

Branch of Service: Cavalry

Unit: Jeff Davis (MS) Legion (Cavalry)

Before Sharpsburg

He enlisted in Charleston, SC on 1 May 1861 and mustered on 22 May as a Private in the Palmetto Guard, later Company I, 2nd South Carolina Infantry. He transferred to Company A of the Georgia Hussars - Company F of the Jeff Davis Legion Cavalry - on 24 July 1862.

On the Campaign

He saw action throughout the Maryland campaign - his Regiment part of Hampton's Brigade. His experience in Frederick (about 12 September) and afterward is described in a letter he wrote his sister in October 1862.

The rest of the War

He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 11 February 1863 and was wounded near Hagerstown, MD on 11 July 1863. He was promoted to First Corporal on 1 October 1863 and was with his company to at least October 1864, the latest record in his military file.

References & notes

Basic biographical information above from the Southern Historical Collection1 and a roster of the Georgia Hussars.2 The photo above is part of a group picture, also in the Collection.3 Further military details from his Compiled Service Records,4 online from fold3. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

Birth

04/25/1840; Georgetown District, SC

Death

05/21/1922; Jacksonville, FL; burial in Laurel Grove Cemetery North, Savannah, GA

Notes

1 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, Published c. 2004, first accessed 01 January 2005, <http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html>, Source page: /mss/inv/htm/02790.html [AotW citation 548]

2 Roster, Company "A", Georgia Hussars. Assembled online by A. Pollette and Guy Power.
Duncan, Alexander McC., Roll of Officers and Members of the Georgia Hussars and of the Cavalry Companies ..., Savannah: The Morning News, 1906, pp. 232 ~ 262 [AotW citation 549]

3 Part of a "Photograph taken in 1867 of eighteen men from Company F of the Georgia Hussars, Jeff Davis Legion."
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Southern Historical Collection, Published c. 2004, first accessed 01 January 2005, <http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/shc/index.html>, Source page: /mss/exhibits/civilwar/munnerpg.html [AotW citation 550]

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