Richard Rogers

Age 29, an unmarried shoemaker in Penhook, LA, he enlisted in Carroll Parish, LA on 20 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Captain Jones' Company, Louisiana Volunteers - the Tiger Bayou Rifles. They became Company I of the 14th Louisiana Infantry on 21 September 1861.

He "was shot by some Col. in Maryland for misbehavior" and was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD by 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September, then sent to the Camden Street US Army Hospital in Baltimore and, on 11 October, on to Fortress Monroe, VA. He was at Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange on 12 October 1862. He was wounded in action at Gettysburg, PA in July 1863 and sent to hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA. He was back on duty by December 1863 but was captured again, on 12 May 1864, at Spotsylvania Court House, VA. He was a prisoner at Point Lookout, MD to 28 May 1864, when he enlisted for US Army service (enlistment record not found).

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2

c. 1832 in IRELAND