Mary Harris Gay

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Mary Harris Gay, a Decatur native, wrote Life in Dixie during the War (1892), in which she recounted her memories of watching the Civil War battle of Decatur.

Courtesy of Georgia Archives, Vanishing Georgia, #dek418-85.

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