When John Clayborn Pigg was born on 13 December 1850, in Waynesboro, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, his father, Delany Pigg, was 30 and his mother, Jennifer Jane Holder, was 27. He married Cynthia Ann Inman on 10 March 1870, in Perry, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Civil District 3, Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1920 and Wayne, Tennessee, United States in 1930. He died on 12 November 1935, in Waynesboro, Wayne, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Clifton, Wayne, 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.
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English: nickname from Middle English pigge ‘pig’ (Old English picg(a)), hence a metonymic occupational name for a swineherd or nickname for someone supposedly resembling a hog (see Hogg ).
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