Chatham-Troup-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fannin, James H. October 1909
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"The Herald & Advertiser"
Newnan, Coweta Co., Georgia

NEWSPAPER Issue of Friday, November 5, 1909

DEATH OF COL. JAMES H. FANNIN

Savannah, Ga., Oct. 23rd

Col. James H. Fannin, who was a close friend of Capt. Henry Wirz and was the 
principal witness for Wirz at his trial, died suddenly of heart failure on a 
street car here this morning. Col. Fannin commanded the First Regiment, 
Georgia Reserves, C.S.A. during the Civil War. The funeral will be held at 
LaGrange, his former home, on Monday.

Col. Fannin in 1863 was commandant of the post at Andersonville, Ga., and 
while holding that command saved Father Whelan of Macon from death in the 
stockade and received the thanks of the Pope through Bishop Verot for his 
timely aid to a Catholic priest. He fought in the battle of West Point, Ga., 
and was taken prisoner and ordered put in irons, but escaped through the 
intervention of Gen. LeGrange of the Union Army.


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