{"id":418,"date":"2025-12-16T13:10:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T18:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/?p=418"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T19:42:22","slug":"silvey-family-in-the-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/silvey-family-in-the-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Silvey 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>Pat Mahan<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>Source:&nbsp; <em>1890 Civil War Veterans Census &#8212; Tennessee<\/em>, by <strong>Byron Sistler<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Selvy, John<\/strong>. Knox Co \u2013 185-3; Pvt. L Co 8th TN Cav; 6-63 to 7-65; <strong>McMillan<\/strong>s PO<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, Celia A.<\/strong>, Roane Co \u2013204-5; widow US Sol; PO omitted- w\/o <strong>Samuel<\/strong>?<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, Peter<\/strong>, Roane Co-203-1; <strong>Marinda [Forrister]<\/strong> widow of; Pvt K Co 5th Tn Inf; 4 Apr 62 to ___; <strong>Ethel<\/strong> PO. s\/o <strong>John &amp; Barbara Cook Silvey<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, Samuel<\/strong>, Roane Co-204-4; <strong>Alpha [Barnett]<\/strong> widow of; Pvt I Co 9th Tn Cav; 25 Sep 63 o 11 Sep 65; <strong>Kreis<\/strong> PO<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, Thomas<\/strong>, Roane Co \u2013211-4; <strong>Elizabeth [Edwards]<\/strong>, widow of; Kingston PO. [Pvt. G Co 1st Inf. Died in KY<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, Wesley<\/strong>, Roane Co-203-1; Pvt K Co 5th Tn Cav; 15 Apr 62 to 14 Apr 65; Oak Grove PO; s\/o <strong>John &amp; Barbara Cook Silvey<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, William<\/strong>, Roane Co-204-4; <strong>Angeline [Nelson]<\/strong> widow of; Elverton PO; no disc., killed during war &#8211; prob s\/o <strong>John &amp; Rhoda Cunningham Silvey<\/strong> (cousin to other <strong>John<\/strong>)<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Silvey, William R<\/strong>. Private; B; Roane Co TN; 26; 16 Apr 1863 &#8211; 6 Nov 1863 {I THINK this man was <strong>William Riley Silvey<\/strong> who married <strong>Mary C. May<\/strong>}<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(from the archived&nbsp;Roots of Roane Web site) Contributed by Pat Mahan Source:&nbsp; 1890 Civil War Veterans Census &#8212; Tennessee, by Byron Sistler Selvy, John. Knox Co \u2013 185-3; Pvt. L Co 8th TN Cav; 6-63 to 7-65; McMillans PO Silvey, <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/silvey-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-418","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\/418","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=418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/roane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}