Megarity
Family
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Megarity family papers
Collection
Identifier: 1971-0416M
Scope and Contents
This collection includes four letters from G. O. Megarity to his family while he was serving in Phillips' Legion GA Vols., Co. C, during the latter half of 1864. The 1870 letter is from his brother, J. A. Megarity, in Arkansas, whose friend Lee shot a African American and it was thought that Lee would be executed by hanging. Also included is an 1846 Milledgeville letter that mentions Archibald Magarity's land grant in Cobb County, Georgia.
Dates:
1846, 1864, and 1870.