Augusta Press · Jul 1, 2026 · Debbie Reddin Van Tuyll

An affair of honor costs a Georgia signer his life

Men took their honor seriously in the eighteenth century. A slight didn’t just risk a fist fight. It risked death at dawn on a lonely field. Button Gwinnett would have known that when, just days after the 1777 gubernatorial election in Georgia, a contest Gwinnett lost, he sent a…

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