Charles James Munnerlyn, born in 1822 and died in 1898, was a delegate to the Georgia Convention at Milledgeville and voted for secession. After the start of the Civil War, he volunteered as a private, but when his health failed he returned home and was elected to the Confederate Congress, where he served from 1862 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 and was soon promoted to major through the influence of Jefferson Davis; when surrender came, he was a lieutenant colonel. Munnerlyn lived in an elegant residence called “Refuge,” a beautiful house with an extensive library and an organ installed for the pleasure of his wife, Harriet Eugenia Shackelford Munnerlyn. The house burned in 1883. The Munnerlyn plantation contained over 3,000 acres, had a landing on the Flint River, and was worked by over 200 slaves, and the family cemetery is situated nearby.