When John McSwain was born in 1844, in Alabama, United States, his father, Angus McSween, was 29 and his mother, Mary Polly Lee, was 18. He lived in Dale, Alabama, United States for about 10 years. He registered for military service in 1862. He died on 28 May 1862, in Lynchburg, Virginia, United States, at the age of 18, and was buried in Old City Cemetery, Lynchburg, Virginia, United States.
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In 1844 when Robert Lumpkin bought land in Virginia, this would be the spot of the Infamous Slave Jail (or Lumpkin’s Jail). The slaves would be brought here during the slave trade until they were sold. Lumpkin had purchased the land for his own slave business.
U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Scottish: probably an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Suain, a Gaelic patronymic based on Old Norse sveinn ‘boy, servant’, which was also used as a personal name. See McQueen 2 and compare Whan . There has been some confusion with Mac Suibhne, see McSween .
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