When Whitfield Ballard was born in 1847, in Knox, Tennessee, United States, his father, Andrew Jackson Ballard, was 32 and his mother, Nancy Amanda Franklin, was 26. He lived in District 11, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1870 and District 13, Grainger, Tennessee, United States in 1880. He died in 1881, in Solo, Pope, Arkansas, United States, at the age of 34, and was buried in Solo, Pope, Arkansas, 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.
Abraham Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation, declaring slaves in Confederate states to be free.
The first federal law that defined what was citizenship and affirm that all citizens are equally protected by the law. Its main objective was to protect the civil rights of persons of African descent.
English: from Middle English ballard ‘bald-headed man’ (compare Bald 3).
French: from the ancient Germanic personal name Balhard, composed of the elements bal, presumably meaning ‘torment, spitefulness’, and hard ‘hard, strong’. Compare Ballor .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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