When John William Gulledge was born on 10 August 1860, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, his father, Hiram Gulledge, was 27 and his mother, Catharine Brewer, was 24. He married Linda Ann Hampton before 1889. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Henderson, Tennessee, United States in 1880 and Civil District 12, Decatur, Tennessee, United States for about 10 years. He died on 21 April 1940, in Decatur, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Yellow Springs, Decatur, 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.
Garfield was shot twice by Charles J. Guitea at Railroad Station in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881. After eleven weeks of intensive and other care Garfield died in Elberon, New Jersey, the second of four presidents to be assassinated, following Abraham Lincoln.
Altered form of English Golledge, itself probably a variant of Colledge .
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