Benjamin Allison Rogers

About 23 years old, from Marlboro County, he enlisted as Private, Company K, 8th South Carolina Infantry on 1 June 1861 in Florence. He was elected First Lieutenant at the reorganization of 13 May 1862.

He was wounded in action and captured at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was paroled at Keedysville on 20 September and exchanged at Aiken's Landing, VA by November 1862. He was wounded again, in the left arm at Gettysburg, PA on 2 July 1863. He was promoted to Captain to date from 24 January 1864 and was slightly wounded in the hand at Deep Bottom, VA in July 1864.

He was Sheriff of Marlboro County 1879-1893. He served as Captain, Company M, 2nd South Carolina Volunteers in the Spanish-American War from 3 August 1898 to 19 April 1899; the regiment was in Cuba from January through March 1899, but saw no action.

His Civil War service information from the Rolls,1 Brasington's Roster,2 and his Compiled Service Records extracted by Charles Watson. Spanish-American service from a pension request for his widow Lura in a US Senate Report (on S. 1355, 57th Congress, 1902). Personal details from family genealogists, especially Henry Poellnitz Johnston in Little Acorns from the Mighty Oak (1962). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married his first cousin Annie Terrell Rogers (1845-1888) in 1866 and they had 8 children. He married again, the widow Lura Breeden Smith (1862-1939) in June 1890. She had a son Walter with her first husband.

07/31/1838; Marlboro District, SC

11/19/1901; Bennettsville, SC; burial in Old Brownsville Church Cemetery, Bristow, SC