When Jonas H. Crigger was born on 26 February 1856, in Blacklick, Wythe, Virginia, United States, his father, Amandus Ambrose Criger, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Staley, was 20. He died on 27 August 1881, in Wythe, Virginia, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in Kimberling Cemetery, Rural Retreat, Wythe, Virginia, United States.
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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.
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Americanized form of Dutch and German Krieger or Krueger .
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