When William Mathias Spoor was born on 20 November 1838, in Edson, Windsor, Broome, New York, United States, his father, John Spoor, was 22 and his mother, Caroline Barton, was 18. He lived in Windsor, Windsor, Broome, New York, United States for about 5 years. He died on 27 August 1864, in Nashville, Davidson, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 25, and was buried in South Windsor, Windsor, Broome, New York, United States.
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U.S. acquires vast tracts of Mexican territory in wake of Mexican War including California and New Mexico.
Tennessee was known as the Volunteer State because during the Mexican War the government asked Tennessee for 3,000 volunteer soldiers and 30,000 joined.
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.
Dutch and English (Durham and Northumberland): metonymic occupational name for a maker of spurs, a lorimer, from Middle Dutch spore, Middle English spore, spure ‘spur’.
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