Location:
1st Street
Unadilla, Dooly County, Georgia
Lat
32.258808
Long -83.732666
Date of Visit: June 25, 2014
William J Mercer
Co I
18 Ga Inf
James Leggitt
Died July 15, 1862
Age 29 years
Sergeant, Company 1, 10
th Georgia Battalion of Infantry
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Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers
Who Served in Organizations from the State of Georgia. Original data from: The National Archives, Retrieved from at 3-Fold August 24, 2014 (http://www.fold3.com)
Obituary: Overby, Obituaries Published by The Christian
Index, 1822-1879, p. 137. 12 Aug. 1862 - Died at his father's residence, in
Macon Co., on the 15th of July, 1862, brother James Leggitt, aged about 30
years. He, like many of his patriotic comrades rushed to the rescue of his
native land...became a victim of typhoid fever. For the past few years he
labored under chronic disease of his liver, yet he bore up manfully against the
afflictions of life, and endeavored to discharge the duties of life, ... as a
citizen, soldier and christian. He became a member of the Babtist Church in
1858, and having given early promisee of christian qualifications , was
ordained deacon of the Baptist Church at Beulah in 1860. He was an affectionate
son, a devoted husband, a generous friend, and when the powers of life were
ebbing fast, and the ashy hue of death sat upon his pallid brow, he turned his
dimmed eyes upon his disconsolate wife and parents, and remarked that his hopes
were bright, and that he was going to a happier chime. This giving evidence
that though the dull claws of mortality were hanging heavily upon him; yet his
immortal spirit was fast approaching that haven of eternal rest where the
bright sunlight of God's Smile illumines each humble christian life. – Roy Leggitt’s Personal Ancestry, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/
