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She was born Sarah Chapman Gordon on August 27, 1805, in Wilkes, North Carolina, to Chapman Gordon who fought at the Battle of Kings Mountain and Charity King. She married Rev. John Sandiford Law Jan. 25, 1825 in Putnam, Georgia. They had seven girls and one boy John Gordon Law, Confederate soldier. Sallie Law died June 28, 1894, in Memphis ...
Second Battle of Memphis. Coordinates: 35.1446°N 90.0540°W. Second Battle of Memphis. Part of the American Civil War. Attack on Irving Block Prison. Date. August 21, 1864. ( 1864-08-21) Location.
Post Civil War. Memphis emerged from the Civil War undamaged from the fighting. On July 24, 1866, Tennessee was the first southern state to be re-admitted to the Union. The Memphis Cotton Exchange was founded in 1873 by a group of cotton traders led by Napoleon Hill. Hill became immensely wealthy with interests in wholesale groceries, railroads ...
The First Battle of Memphis was a naval battle fought on the Mississippi River immediately north of the city of Memphis, Tennessee on June 6, 1862, during the American Civil War. The engagement was witnessed by many of the citizens of Memphis. It resulted in a crushing defeat for the Confederate forces, and marked the virtual eradication of a ...
Irving Block prison. Attack on Irving Block by General Forrest in 1864. The Irving Block prison was a wartime prison in Memphis, Tennessee, during the American Civil War. Notorious for its cruel and unsanitary living conditions, it was also known as the "Bastille" of Memphis. [1]
The Memphis massacre of 1866 [1] was a rebellion with a series of violent events that occurred from May 1 to 3, 1866 in Memphis, Tennessee. The racial violence was ignited by political and social racism following the American Civil War, in the early stages of Reconstruction. [2] After a shooting altercation between white policemen and black ...
Yvetta Goodman sits and looks down at her grandfather’s grave after the 2023 Memorial Day Ceremony at the West Tennessee State Veterans Cemetery in Memphis, Tenn., on Monday, May 29, 2023.
They were David T. Porter (1879-1881), John Overton (1881-1883), David P. Hadden (1883-1891), William D. Bethell (1891-1893) and Walter L. Clapp (1893-1895) who then became mayor. See the article History of Memphis, Tennessee for more information. As a result of a yellow fever epidemic in 1879, Memphis lost so much of its population that it was ...