When Angenetta Phillips was born on 15 January 1851, in Scott, Tennessee, United States, her father, Thomas L. Phillips, was 24 and her mother, Esther Jane Terry, was 27. She married Sampson R Reed on 31 December 1874, in Scott, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 5 daughters. She lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died in 1893, in Scott, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 42, and was buried in Hazel Valley Memorial Cemetery, Oneida, Scott, Tennessee, United States.
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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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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