When Mary E. Phillips was born on 10 November 1846, in Cherry Valley, Wilson, Tennessee, United States, her father, David Phillips, was 51 and her mother, Mary Waters, was 44. She married Elias J Bass on 9 February 1867, in Pulaski, Georgia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 2 daughters. She lived in Wilson, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Tennessee, United States in 1870. She died on 11 July 1876, at the age of 29, and was buried in Cherry Valley, Wilson, 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.
In April of 1865, the steamboat the Sultana exploded. The Civil War had been over for awhile so this was considered the worst maritime disaster in US history. Compared to the Titanic where 1,512 people were killed, 1,8000 soldiers were killed on the Sultana. Confederate soldiers that weeks earlier had been fighting with Union soldiers were now fighting to save their lives.
English, Dutch, North German, and Jewish (western Ashkenazic): patronymic from the personal name Philip . In North America, this surname has also absorbed cognates from other languages (see Philips ).
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