Brief Life History of John
When John Rains was born in 1860, in Alabama, United States, his father, Charles Raines, was 40 and his mother, Melissa Long, was 28. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870.
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- John Rains in household of Chas Rains, "United States Census, 1870"
- Legacy NFS Source: John Rains - Government record: birth-name: John Rains
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1862 · Battle of Shiloh
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.
1863
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
1896 · Plessy vs. Ferguson
A landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court upholding the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities if the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It's widely regarded as one of the worst decisions in U.S. Supreme Court history.
Name Meaning
English (Kent): variant of Raines .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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