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[768] and he served in that capacity two sessions. In March, 1887, without any solicitation on his part, and on the suggestion of Senator Hampton, Representative Samuel Dibble and the Hon. Hugh S. Thompson, assistant secretary of the treasury, he was appointed postmaster of Charleston. This office he held for a period of over eleven years of consecutive service, longer than that of any other first-class postmaster of the United States. He is a member of Camp Sumter, U. C. V., and of various fraternal orders and social clubs. In 1869 he was married to Emma, daughter of H. M. Manigault, and they have had thirteen children. George L. Muckenfuss, in November, 1862, at the age of sixteen, enlisted in Company G, Eleventh South Carolina, called the Butler Riflemen, and served as a private until his surrender near High Point, N. C., April 26, 1865, he being included in the surrender of Johnston at Greensboro, when just nineteen years old. This young soldier saw a good deal of military service on behalf of the Confederacy, such as Second Cold Harbor, the charge on June 24, 1864, in front of Petersburg, fight on Weldon railroad, August 21, 1864; siege of Petersburg from June 18, 1864, to September, 1864, and from thence into North Carolina, at Town Creek, Kinston and Bentonville. After the war he returned home with $1.25 in his pocket, followed the occupation of a farmer for two years, and then railroaded in Texas for two years. After this he returned to South Carolina and engaged in business as a merchant for three years at Monks Corners, and since 1878 has been located at Ridgeville. He was born in Colleton, April 5, 1846, married in 1875 at Reevesville, to Henrietta G. Inabenet, and they have three children living: St. Clair White, Cantwell Faulkner and George Lythgoe. W. M. Muckenfuss, a Confederate veteran who is now a prominent lawyer of Charleston, was born at that city August 15, 1841, and was there reared and educated. His descent is from the colonial families of Muckenfuss and Dorrill, which gave soldiers to the Continental army. In November, 1860, as a private in the Washington light infantry, he took part in the occupation of the United States arsenal at Charleston, and he continued on duty in the State army until after the fall of Fort
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