When James Monroe McDaniel was born on 5 April 1861, in Fannin, Georgia, United States, his father, John Daniel Mc Daniel, was 27 and his mother, Charity Melinda Humphries, was 28. He married Tennessee Loutisia Warren on 7 August 1890, in DeKalb, Alabama, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 sons and 5 daughters. He lived in Saline Township, Pike, Arkansas, United States in 1910 and Justice Precinct 6, Lamar, Texas, United States in 1920. He died on 3 October 1939, in Lamar, Texas, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Tigertown Cemetery, Tigertown, Lamar, Texas, United States.
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By the time the Battle of Pea Ridge happened the Union forces had pushed Confederates through Missouri and Arkansas. This battle was important in securing Missouri for the Union and opening Arkansas for the Union.
On June 19, 1865, Gordon Granger (Union Major) read General Orders, No. 3 to the people of Galveston. The statement was written as follows: "The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the Executive of the United States, all slaves are free. This involves an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves, and the connection heretofore existing between them becomes that between employer and hired labor. The freedmen are advised to remain quietly at their present homes and work for wages. They are informed that they will not be allowed to collect at military posts and that they will not be supported in idleness either there or elsewhere."
A federal law prohibiting all immigration of Chinese laborers. The Act was the first law to prevent all members of a national group from immigrating to the United States.
Irish: altered form of McDonnell , itself an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac Domhnaill ‘son of Donal’, from association of the Gaelic patronymic with the Biblical personal name Daniel .
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