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H.A. Rogers
(1833 - 1884)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 26 year old teacher at the "Academy" (probably the Leasburg Male Academy), living with planter Benjamin F. Stanfield, his family, and 35 slaves at Leasburg in Caswell County, NC; his mother was a Stanfield, though not an immediate relation. He enrolled there on 1 May 1861 and mustered as 2nd Lieutenant of Company D of the 3rd North Carolina Infantry on 15 May in Raleigh (to date from 17 April). The regiment was re-designated the 13th North Carolina Infantry on 14 November 1861 and he was elected Captain on 26 April 1862 during the army reorganization.
On the Campaign
He commanded the company in Maryland and was commended for "gallant bearing" in action at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 by Lieutenant Colonel Ruffin in his after-action report. He was wounded at Sharpsburg on 17 September.
The rest of the War
He was promoted to Major of the regiment to date from 16 December 1862. He was wounded again, by a gunshot at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863 and was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the regiment to date from 13 June. He returned to his regiment on 8 July and was wounded for the 3rd time, by a piece of shell to his head which fractured his skull, on 22 September 1863 in a skirmish at Barnett’s Ford, VA, and was furloughed home from a Richmond, VA hospital on 30 October for 60 days. He was not able to return to duty and was retired to the Invalid Corps for disability on 19 October 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was a school teacher at Bushy Fork in Person County, NC but he was a farmer in Person County by 1880.
References & notes
His service from Moore's Roster 1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture is from a portrait of unknown provenance displayed at the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center and shared to the FamilySearch database by Rick Lyman in 2019.
He married Mary Frances Hester (1842-1872) in 1868 and they had 3 children. He married again, her older sister Huldah A Hester (1850-1925).
Birth
11/08/1833; Person County, NC
Death
11/28/1184; Person County, NC; burial in Hester Cemetery, Person County, NC
1 Moore, John Wheeler (compiler), and State of North Carolina, Roster of North Carolina Troops in the War Between the States, 4 volumes, Raleigh: Ashe & Gatling, State Printers and Publishers, 1882, Vol. 1, p. 484 [AotW citation 33175]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33176]