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Robert K. Byrd
Robert King Byrd (November 4, 1823 – May 2, 1885) was an American soldier and politician. A Southern Unionist, he commanded the Union Army's First Tennessee Infantry during the Civil War, and saw action at Cumberland Gap, Stones River, and in the Knoxville and Atlanta campaigns. He represented his native Roane County at the pro-Union East Tennessee Convention on the eve of the war in 1861, and at the Nashville convention that reorganized the Tennessee state government toward the end of the war in January 1865.
Byrd served one term (1879–1881) in the Tennessee Senate, and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party's nomination for governor in 1880. He was a persistent advocate for railroad construction and navigational improvements to the Tennessee River during the two decades following the war.
==Early life and career==
Byrd was born in Roane County, the son of Joseph and Ann (Pride) Byrd. The Byrds were one of the more prominent families in the county. Jesse Byrd, Robert's grandfather, established a ferry at Kingston in the 1790s, when Fort Southwest Point was still in operation. Joseph Byrd was a major landowner and county sheriff.〔''(Goodspeed's History of Roane County )'', 1886. Accessed at the Roane County Heritage Commission website, 1 February 2015.〕
Robert K. Byrd fought in the Mexican-American War as a First Lieutenant in Company C of the 4th Tennessee Infantry.〔Roger D. Hunt, "(Robert King Byrd )," ''Colonels in Blue- Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee: A Civil War Biographical Dictionary'' (McFarland, 2013), p. 201.〕 During the 1850s, he engaged in farming, and promoted railroad construction. In 1853, he was appointed to a seven-man commission tasked with fundraising and surveying a route for the proposed South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky Railroad.〔"(Rail Road Meeting )," ''Loudon Free Press'', 10 June 1853, p. 2.〕〔"(Meeting of the Directory of the S.C., Tenn. and Ky. Rail Road )," ''Loudon Free Press'', 23 August 1854, p. 2.〕 He was an active member of the Roane County Agricultural Society in the mid-1850s,〔"(Agricultural Society Meeting )," ''Loudon Free Press'', 13 September 1854, p. 2.〕〔"(Annual Meeting of the Roane County Agricultural Society )," ''Nashville Union and American'', 18 January 1855, p. 2.〕 and was listed on the state militia register in 1855.〔Emma Middleton Wells, ''The History of Roane County, 1801-1870'' (Regional Publishing Company, 1975).〕
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