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Lakin, Margaret Whitman

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Lam family papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS439f
Scope and Content

This collection consists of three letters. One letter of particular interest was written by "Jas. G. Lam," a soldier in the 1st Georgia Battalion during the Civil War, and documents a railroad accident and the Confederate retreat. There is a letter signed by M. L. Whittmore and an oath of allegiance to the United States signed by Charles Lam. Also included are envelopes addressed to Margaret Whitman Lakin.

Dates: 1864-1867, undated

Margaret Whitman Lakin papers

 Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS14
Scope and Content

This collection contains scrapbooks of newsclippings and memorobilia of Atlanta.

Dates: 1919-1955

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Subject
Atlanta (Ga.) -- Social life and customs 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives, Confederate 1
World War, 1939-1945 1