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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Henderson H. Rogers

(1840 - 1905)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

An overseer's son, in 1860 he was an 18 year old farm worker living with his parents and brother Hiram near Madison in Morgan County, GA. He enlisted there on 29 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion.

On the Campaign

He was wounded by a gunshot in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was home on furlough to at least the end of 1862. He was appointed 4th Corporal by June 1864 and was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865, by then a Sergeant, and was held at Newport News, VA. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 25 June and was released.

After the War

By 1870 he was a farmer living with his parents (and new wife) in Madison, GA. By 1900 he was a farmer in Pope County, AR.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1870 and 1900.

He married Florine R Brewer (1850-) in January 1869 and they had 4 children.

Birth

01/1840; Morgan County, GA

Death

11/22/1905; Pope County, AR

Notes

1 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 33892]

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