When Benjamin Hitchcock was born on 2 March 1847, in White, Tennessee, United States, his father, William L Hitchcock, was 24 and his mother, Ruth Carland, was 20. He died on 15 March 1862, in White, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 15, and was buried in Saylors Cemetery, Brown Cemetery, White, Tennessee, United States.
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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: from a pet form of the Middle English personal name Hitch , a pet form of Richard , with the Middle English diminutive suffix -cok. Compare Heacock .
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