Favorite Sons of Civil War Kentucky by Bryan S. Bush

Author:Bryan S. Bush
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2017-04-11T04:00:00+00:00

In March 1863, Colonel Mundy began to experience severe lung problems. It was a preexisting condition that he had for some years. While in Louisville, he was seen by numerous doctors. All the surgeons agreed that Mundy suffered from repeated attacks and hemorrhaged from the lungs, which was a direct result from exposure or fatigue. He was seen as unfit for campaign duty, and it was recommended that he remain in post duty.

That same month, Union General William Rosecrans personally asked for Colonel Mundy to rejoin his command, but Union General Ambrose Burnside, who was at the time the military commander of Kentucky, intervened and informed Rosecrans that Mundy was not well. He was, however, a “very useful officer in Louisville” and should remain there.

Mundy’s health continued to decline through that mid-war year, and by December 8, 1863, he could no longer function as a commander. He wrote to Union Major General George Thomas:

[I]respectfully ask the acceptance of my resignation as Colonel of the 23rd Kentucky Infantry Vols. which I tendered on the 11th day of June last to Maj. General Burnside being physically incapable of doing field duty as will appear from the accompanying surgeons certificate of disability.

I was ordered from Louisville to summarily when I have been commanding the Post for the last year, that I was compelled to leave all my accounts of the administration of the post fund, some $15,000 and all the accounts of the General Military Administration of the Post Accounting to nearly half a million of dollars to the end of the past current quarter, unsettled and I have to ask respectfully that time and opportunity be allowed me to return to Louisville and adjust all those accounts before the acceptance of my resignation. Let me be permitted to express my regret at being compelled to quit the service before the work…is accomplished but my frail health requires it, and my command having been reduced to about two hundred men by the casualties of war, who have within a full corps of line officers and two field officers of acknowledged bravery and skill, renders my further service unmaterial. If I could be assigned to any duty when my services would be valuable to the government and when I could be shielded from inclement weather I would gladly remain to help our good cause on to success.

—Col. Mundy.98

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