When Alexander Qualls was born on 23 October 1840, in Overton, Tennessee, United States, his father, John Quales, was 37 and his mother, Sarah Newman, was 31. He married Adelia L Bilbrey on 2 January 1868, in Overton, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 9 daughters. He lived in Tennessee, United States in 1870 and Civil District 6, Overton, Tennessee, United States in 1910. He died on 26 November 1918, in Okalona, Overton, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 78, and was buried in Okalona Cemetery, Okalona, Overton, Tennessee, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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.
Altered form of English Quarles .
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