| First, our thanks goes to Cole Owen for sharing this
photo with us, and the accompanying information along with it, to
document an ancestors' service in the Civil War.
Asbury Rogers came by his heroism
naturally. His father was John Rogers, one of the 12 sons of Hugh
Rogers, the Revolutionary War soldier, and his mother, Mary
"Polly" McCracken comes from another of our intertwined lines
of lineage - Polly's father, Joseph Cass McCracken, raised his children
on the Georgia frontier, when it was a raw land, still Cherokee
territory. His (Asbury's) grandmother (Hugh Rogers' wife), Nancy
Augusta Thornton, was the daughter of Col. John Thornton and Jane
Washington, both families that played important roles in the
Revolutionary War.--- Marcia Foley, descendant
Per "North Carolina Confederate Militia
Officers Roster, as contained in the Adjutant-General's
Officers Roster" by Stephen E. Bradley, Broadfoot Publishing,
1992, located at Carlsbad Public Library; "1 Mar 1862; Asbury
T. Rogers is listed as Lt. Col, Field and Staff, 112th Regiment, Haywood
Co, 28th Brigade."
Captain (later Lt. Colonel) in Confederate Army, Company Commander, 62nd
Regiment, NC of the Confederate Army, under Col. Robert Love.
Captured at Cumberland Gap; spent twenty-three months in prison camp.
62ND REGIMENT - NC see: http://members.aol.com/jweaver303/nc/haywood.htm
This company in which Rogers served was organized in the summer of
1862, the enlistments being from July 14 to 19. This Regiment first saw
service in east Tennessee; then later, about the first of 1863, took
over command of the Confederate defense position at Cumberland Gap
Mountain above Middlesboro, Kentucky. Here they were surrendered by
their commander, General Frazier, in September 1863. Major McDowell,
however, refused to surrender, and with some 300 to 400 of his troops
escaped from the mountain. Some of these troops were from Haywood. They
returned to their homes, mostly on Pigeon, and entered the service again
COMPANY A OFFICERS
Asbury T. Rogers, Captain
----------------------
I have dug about a bit in the history of the unit in which Rogers
served. The Confederate General, Frazier, who surrendered to the
Union, was later accused of being "in cahoots" with the enemy.
Many of his command refused to surrender, stating it was not a situation
that demanded it. Their position seems substantiated by the fact
that those who refused to surrender successfully escaped with all
horses, wagons, arms, canon, etc., "through" the enemy lines
and back to Haywood Co NC - which certainly suggests that their position
was not in peril. ----- Cole Owen, descendant
Back to Rogers Lineage
Back to
McCracken Lineage |
