When Margaret Elizabeth Ritter was born on 15 February 1858, in Pulaski, Virginia, United States, her father, James Cloyd Ritter, was 30 and her mother, Nancy D Bland, was 30. She married James Monroe Christley on 14 November 1878, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She lived in Blacksburg, Montgomery, Virginia, United States in 1870 and Dublin, Pulaski, Virginia, United States in 1880. She died in 1889, in Pulaski, Virginia, United States, at the age of 31, and was buried in Prices Fork, Montgomery, Virginia, United States.
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The Battle of Manassas is also referred to as the First Battle of Bull Run. 35,000 Union troops were headed towards Washington D.C. after 20,000 Confederate forces. The McDowell's Union troops fought with General Beauregard's Confederate troops along a little river called Bull Run.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
This Act was to restrict the power of the President removing certain office holders without approval of the Senate. It denies the President the power to remove any executive officer who had been appointed by the president with the advice and consent of the Senate, unless the Senate approved the removal during the next full session of Congress. The Amendment was later repealed.
German: from Middle High German rit(t)er ‘knight, mounted warrior’, Middle Low German ridder, applied as a status name, occupational name, or nickname. Compare Knight .
English (Middlesex): perhaps a nickname from an agent derivative of Middle English ritten ‘to cut open, split’, usually referring to the use of a blade. Compare Render .
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