{"id":380,"date":"2025-12-16T01:17:52","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T06:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=380"},"modified":"2026-01-02T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T15:57:12","slug":"colonel-robert-k-byrd-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/colonel-robert-k-byrd-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Colonel Robert K. Byrd in the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Colonel Robert K. Byrd<\/strong>, whose farm is now the site of the City of Harriman, became a big name militarily in Roane County by raising an entire regiment for the Union Army which was composed primarily of Roane County men.<\/p>\r\n<hr>\r\n<p>Use the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em>search<\/em><\/span> feature in the right-hand menu to locate other content related to <strong>Byrd<\/strong>, including these items:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n<li><strong>Robert Byrd<\/strong> vs. <strong>Price<\/strong> et al., Circuit Court, 1866 (<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/r-k-mary-byrd-vs-george-w-e-a-yost-and-r-d-duncan-1868\/\">click here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li><strong>Robert &amp; Mary Byrd<\/strong> vs. <strong>Yost<\/strong>s &amp; <strong>Duncan<\/strong>, Circuit Court, 1868 (<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/r-k-mary-byrd-vs-george-w-e-a-yost-and-r-d-duncan-1868-2\/\">click here<\/a>)<\/li>\r\n<li>transcription of his 1862 letter to <strong>Henry Welcker<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/colonel-robert-byrds-letter-to-henry-welcker-1862\/\">click here<\/a>).<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) Colonel Robert K. Byrd, whose farm is now the site of the City of Harriman, became a big name militarily in Roane County by raising an entire regiment for the Union Army which <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/colonel-robert-k-byrd-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":[35,13,24,18,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history","category-communities","category-families-individuals","category-military-records","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1472,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions\/1472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}