Colonel Mordecai Sheftall
1735 - 1797
As Deputy Commissary General of Issues for Georgia
and South Carolina, Colonel Sheftall was the highest
ranking Jewish officer in the Revolutionary War.
Captured by the British in the Battle of Savannah,
Dec. 29, 1778, Sheftall was imprisoned for two years
at Antigua and later released in an exchange of
prisoners.
Marker can be reached from Louisville Road.
Courtesy hmdb.org
