Chatham-Troup-Sumter County GaArchives Obituaries.....Fannin, James H. October 1909 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00023.html#0005680 August 25, 2006, 8:40 am "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. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/chatham/obits/f/fannin5183gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb