When John H Long was born about 1840, in Milltown, Jackson, Tennessee, United States, his father, Thomas Long, was 34 and his mother, Mary Polly Lee, was 27. He married Parasettie Emiline Jenkins on 15 March 1865, in Smith, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons. He lived in Jackson, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 March 1868, in Smith, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 29.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
The battle of Shiloh took place on April 6, 1862 and April 7, 1862. Confederate soldiers camp through the woods next to where the Union soldiers were camped at Pittsburg Landing on the Tennessee River. With 23,000 casualties this was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War up to this point.
English and French: nickname for a tall person, from Old English lang, long, Old French long ‘long, tall’ (equivalent to Latin longus). Compare Dulong and Lelong .
Irish (Ulster and Munster): shortened Anglicized form of Gaelic Ó Longáin (see Langan ).
German: variant of Lang ‘long’ and, in North America, also an altered form (translation into English) of this.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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