When William Henry Gardner was born on 5 June 1856, in United, Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, his father, Thomas Jefferson Gardner, was 27 and his mother, Catherine Alexander, was 24. He married Rebecca Ray Skyles on 13 June 1882, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States. He lived in Kanawha, Virginia, United States in 1860 and West Virginia, United States in 1870. He died on 26 October 1893, in Kanawha, West Virginia, United States, at the age of 37, and was buried in Charleston, Kanawha, West 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 The Amendment was later repealed.
English and Scottish: occupational name from Middle English gardener ‘gardener’, Old French gardinier, jardinier.
Americanized form (translation into English) of German Gärtner or Gartner and French Desjardins .
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