When James S. Vernon Lillard was born on 28 March 1829, in Meigs, Tennessee, United States, his father, James Lillard III, was 34 and his mother, Mary Polly Sandusky, was 25. He married Elmira J. Huff on 17 October 1847, in Meigs, Tennessee, United States. They were the parents of at least 4 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Meigs County Courthouse, Decatur, Meigs, Tennessee, United States in 1850 and Civil District 4, Decatur, Tennessee, United States in 1900. He died on 6 November 1908, in Tennessee, United States, at the age of 79, and was buried in Decatur, Meigs, Tennessee, United States.
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Being a second spiritual and religious awakening, like the First Great Awakening, many Churches began to spring up from other denominations. Many people began to rapidly join the Baptist and Methodist congregations. Many converts to these religions believed that the Awakening was the precursor of a new millennial age.
The Hermitage located in Nashville, Tennessee was a plantation owned by President Andrew Jackson from 1804 until his death there in 1845. The Hermitage is now a museum.
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.
English: unexplained.
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