{"id":11134,"date":"2014-06-13T00:34:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-13T05:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/?p=11134"},"modified":"2023-06-11T19:34:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T00:34:14","slug":"ballentine-john-goff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/ballentine-john-goff\/","title":{"rendered":"BALLENTINE, John Goff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">City: Pulaski<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b>BALLENTINE, John Goff, <\/b>retired lawyer-banker; born Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 20, 1825; son of <b>Andrew Mitchell <\/b>and <b>Mary Tuttle (Goff) BALLENTINE;<\/b> Scotch-Irish descent; graduated from Wurtemburg Academy, 1841; University of Nashville 1845, and Harvard 1848; married <b>Mary Elizabeth LAIRD<\/b>, November 14, 1854; member I. O. O. F.; early business, lawyer; belonged to Livingston\u2019s Law School of New York; a delegate at different times to Jackson, Miss., to assist in the rehabiliment of the State; was elected to Congress in 1882; never asked for office, either civil, military or ecclesiastical; in 1861 he enlisted as a private in Shelby County, Tenn.; afterward was made Captain and afterward underwent the different grades of promotion from Captain to Colonel of regiment, and frequently commanded the brigade; was wounded in 1864 in front of Sherman in Georgia campaign, at the time serving under General Joe Johnston, and was in hospital until General Hood\u2019s advance into Tennessee; was with Hood during his entire Tennessee campaign; when Hood went out of Tennessee orders were given for him to remain and police the Tennessee river; just before the collapse of the Confederacy, he was notified that he had been made a Brigadier General at the last conference, and to hurry to Selma and report to General Dick Taylor, who would give him his commission; when he reached Selma there was great confusion, and General Taylor had packed up everything and left; was a lawyer and planter in Mississippi; lawyer, banker and farmer in Tennessee.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Source:<i>\u00a0Who\u2019s Who in Tennessee: A Biographical Reference Book of Notable Tennesseans of To-Day<\/i>. Memphis: Paul &amp; Douglas Co, 1911.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City: Pulaski BALLENTINE, John Goff, retired lawyer-banker; born Pulaski, Giles County, Tenn., May 20, 1825; son of Andrew Mitchell and Mary Tuttle (Goff) BALLENTINE; Scotch-Irish descent; graduated from Wurtemburg Academy, 1841; University of Nashville 1845, and Harvard 1848; married Mary Elizabeth LAIRD, November 14, 1854; member I. O. O. F.; early business, lawyer; belonged to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205,4405,541,4062,4419],"tags":[3648,1461,2416],"class_list":{"0":"post-11134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-giles","7":"category-surname-b","8":"category-university-of-nashville","9":"category-whoswho","10":"category-x_featured-image-no","11":"tag-ballentine","12":"tag-goff","13":"tag-laird","14":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11134"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13785,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11134\/revisions\/13785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/whos-who\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}