When James Washington Reagan was born on 17 January 1844, in Sevier, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Derias Reagan, was 20 and his mother, Winifred Winkle or Phillips, was 22. He married Elizabeth Hayes in 1866, in Bartow, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Cass, Georgia, United States in 1860 and Bartow, Georgia, United States in 1870. He died before 18 June 1880.
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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.
Civil War History - Some 11,000 Georgians gave their lives in defense of their state a state that suffered immense destruction. But wars end brought about an even more dramatic figure to tell: 460,000 African-Americans were set free from the shackles of slavery to begin new lives as free people.
Irish (Cork and Kerry): variant of Regan .
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