When Francis Blueford Goats was born on 1 July 1845, in Giles, Tennessee, United States, his father, William Allen Goats, was 30 and his mother, Elizabeth Ann Collins, was 29. He died on 20 August 1864, in Tullahoma, Coffee, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 19, and was buried in Tullahoma, Coffee, 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.
English: see Goates .
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