{"id":325,"date":"2025-12-15T18:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=325"},"modified":"2025-12-15T18:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:06:50","slug":"welcker-brothers-the-silver-greys-battalion-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/welcker-brothers-the-silver-greys-battalion-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcker Brothers &#038; the &#8220;Silver Greys&#8221; Battalion in the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-nggic-image-chooser-block\">ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<br>Major Benjamin Franklin Welcker, CSA<\/div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\r\n<div><strong>Benjamin Franklin Welcker<\/strong> and <strong>Henry I. Welcker<\/strong> recruited a company of men who were subsequently mustered into Confederate service as Co. I, 26th Reg. of Vol. Infantry, with <strong>Benjamin F.<\/strong> as Captain. After action in Knoxville and Bowling Green, KY, the Company was taken prisoner at the fall of Ft. Donelson. <strong>Benjamin<\/strong> and <strong>Henry<\/strong> were released in a prisoner exchange at Vicksburg. They returned to Roane County and raised a battalion for Cavalry Service. <strong>Benjamin F.<\/strong> was elected to command the battalion as Major. This battalion, known as <strong>Welcker<\/strong>&#8216;s Silver Greys, saw much action in Roane and Loudon counties. <strong>William Lewis Welcker<\/strong> (all brothers) attended West Point Military Academy in 1849, and served as a Captain in the Confederate Army.<\/div>\r\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\r\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/welckers-battalion-kincaids-company-confederate-civil-war-unit\/\">Click here to view<\/a> a listing of soldiers in Kincaid&#8217;s Company, Welcker&#8217;s Battalion<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site)<\/p>\n <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/welcker-brothers-the-silver-greys-battalion-in-the-civil-war\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,24,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history","category-families-individuals","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":339,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions\/339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}