William Foster Rogillio

A 28 year old farmer, he enlisted at Port Gibson, MS as a Private in Company F, 2nd Mississippi Infantry Battalion on 13 August 1861. He was promoted to Corporal on 1 April 1862 and was wounded near Richmond, VA in June.

He was wounded again, in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 27 September and furloughed for 30 days on 5 October; he was 4th Sergeant and back with his Company by the end of 1862. He was wounded for the third time, on 3 or 5 May 1863 by a gunshot to his chest at Chancellorsville, VA and returned to duty from Howard's Grove hospital in Richmond on 24 September 1863. He was promoted to 3rd Sergeant on 1 November 1863 and 2nd Sergeant on 5 March 1864. He was in a Richmond hospital with smallpox when he was captured on 3 April 1865, and was released there on 28 August (or 5 September) 1865 after taking an amnesty oath.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer Rocky Springs in Claiborne County, MS. He retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3, filed under 48th Mississippi Infantry. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1870-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Drexler (1843-1926) in May 1858 and they had 7 children.

09/06/1832; Yazoo City, MS

11/03/1912; Rocky Springs, 1912; burial in Owens Cemetery, Claiborne County, MS