{"id":404,"date":"2025-12-16T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=404"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:44:36","slug":"griffin-family-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/griffin-family-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Griffin Family in the Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>(from the archived&nbsp;<em>Roots of Roane<\/em> Web site)<\/p>\r\n<p><em>Contributed by <strong>Sandi Griffin Vines<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Samuel J (Jenkins) Griffin<\/strong>, nicknamed &#8220;Jenks&#8221;, was b. 1822 Hawkins Co, TN. Pvt <strong>Capt Sterling T Turner<\/strong>&#8216;s Company, <strong>Gillespie<\/strong>&#8216;s Regiment Volunteers, Company F 43rd Regiment of Tennessee. Joined for duty and enrolled the 9 Nov 1861, Roane Co, TN, by <strong>James Gillespie<\/strong> for the period of 12 months. Honorable discharge on 7 Nov 1862, reason &#8220;being 40 years of age.&#8221;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) Contributed by Sandi Griffin Vines Samuel J (Jenkins) Griffin, nicknamed &#8220;Jenks&#8221;, was b. 1822 Hawkins Co, TN. Pvt Capt Sterling T Turner&#8216;s Company, Gillespie&#8216;s Regiment Volunteers, Company F 43rd Regiment of Tennessee. Joined <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/griffin-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":[35,24,18,56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-war-history","category-families-individuals","category-military-records","category-roots-of-roane-site"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","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=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":405,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}