{"id":350,"date":"2025-12-15T23:59:29","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T04:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=350"},"modified":"2025-12-30T16:06:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T21:06:17","slug":"phillips-family-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/phillips-family-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Phillips Family in the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Source: a manuscript on the Phillips family, written&nbsp;by <strong>Snyder E. Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah Phillips, Sr.<\/strong> &#8230;was ready for war. If he followed the nearest route, he went through <strong>DeArmond<\/strong>&#8216;s Gap (Roane), up Little Emory (River), through Morgan County, and on to Camp <strong>Dick Robinson<\/strong> in Kentucky where he volunteered for a 3-year tour of duty in Company E, 1st TN, Infantry on August 20, 1861. Two of his sons, <strong>Isaiah Phillips, Jr.<\/strong>, and <strong>Elias Phillips<\/strong>, and probably a third son, <strong>John C. Phillips<\/strong>, also enlisted in the Union Army. Additionally, a son-in-law, <strong>John Frank Williams<\/strong>, and a son-in-law-to-be, <strong>Charles Goodman Webster<\/strong>, served in the Union Army.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Isaiah Phillips<\/strong> married <strong>Martha Solomon<\/strong>. Their daughter, <strong>Sophia Phillips<\/strong>, married <strong>John Frank Williams<\/strong>. <strong>Rev. Isaiah Phillips, Jr.<\/strong>, married <strong>Martha McGill<\/strong>, <strong>Elias Phillips<\/strong> married <strong>Malinda Davis<\/strong>, and <strong>Sarah Phillips<\/strong> married <strong>C. G. Webster<\/strong>. <strong>Isaiah Phillips, Sr.<\/strong>, married secondly <strong>Mahala Henderson<\/strong>. Buried Dyllis Cemetery, Roane Co.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) Source: a manuscript on the Phillips family, written&nbsp;by Snyder E. Roberts Isaiah Phillips, Sr. &#8230;was ready for war. If he followed the nearest route, he went through DeArmond&#8216;s Gap (Roane), up Little Emory <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/phillips-family-in-the-civil-war\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","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-350","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\/350","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=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1149,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/1149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}