When James Monroe Christley was born on 3 November 1855, in Carroll, Virginia, United States, his father, Samuel Christley, was 21 and his mother, Assenath Sarah Wheeler, was 21. He married Margaret Elizabeth Ritter on 14 November 1878, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Virginia, United States in 1870 and Dublin, Pulaski, Virginia, United States in 1880. He died on 4 July 1887, in Radford, 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.
Arlington Cemetery is a military cemetery. It was originally a plantation owned by George Washington Parke Custis. This is the location of Robert E. Lee, 16,000 Civil War soldiers, William Howard Taft, John, Jackie, Robert, and Edward Kennedy. The tomb of the unknown soldier is also located here it was dedicated on November 11, 1921. It contains the remains of those soldiers unknown from WWI, WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
English: variant of Chrisley . This surname is now rare in Britain.
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