{"id":367,"date":"2025-12-16T00:57:44","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=367"},"modified":"2025-12-16T00:57:44","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T05:57:44","slug":"russell-family-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/russell-family-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Family 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>\r\n<p><strong>John Russell<\/strong> (b 1806) lived in &#8220;The Cove&#8221; and at least three, possibly all nine of his sons served in the Union Army. His son <strong>Thomas Russell<\/strong> (1835) was killed in the war. His son <strong>John F. Russell<\/strong> (1838-1920) served, and his son <strong>James B.<\/strong> (1839-1910) served in Company I, 7th TN Inf. and later lived in Roane. <strong>Aaron Russell<\/strong> (b 1846) may have gotten into service near the end of the War.<\/p>\r\n<\/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\/russell-family-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-367","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\/367","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=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions\/368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}