Marcellus Mundy

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1830-05-16

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1901-02-22

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"Marcellus Mundy" in the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/N00000239, (accessed November 21, 2024).

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Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier. Owen County, Kentucky, native. Son of Harrison Mundy and Elvira Foster Mundy. Married to Margaret Offutt Mundy. Father of St. Mare Mundy. Attended Transylvania University in Lexington, Fayette County, Kentucky. Studied law under Professor Hoffman and T. T. Wharton. Attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Colonel of the Garibaldi Legion of Philadelphia. Resigned his commission. Served in the 23rd Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as a colonel from January 1862 to October 1, 1862. Detached as commander of the post of Louisville in the District of Western Kentucky of the Department of the Ohio from October 1862 to December 1863. Resigned on December 31, 1863. Attorney in Louisville.

Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Kentucky, NARA RG 109, Microfilm Series M319, Roll 0361.
Roger D. Hunt, Colonels in Blue—Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary (Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 2014), 180.
Josiah Stoddard Johnston, ed., Memorial History of Louisville from its First Settlement to the Year 1896 vol.1 (Chicago: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 463.

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