Soldier:  Hugh G. Rodgers

Regiment:  96^th. OVI                              

Company:  C

Age:  34                       

Date Entering Service:  August 6, 1862

Period of Service:  8 months

Remarks (When discharged, re-enlisted, wounded, captured, died of disease or killed):

Discharged at Jefferson Barracks, St Louis, Mississippi on 2/10/1863 upon surgeon’s certificate of disability.

Battles in which he fought:

Battle of Chickasaw Bluffs, Mississippi                 December 28-29, 1862

Battle of Arkansas Post, Arkansas                                     January 11, 1862

Siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi                            May 18-July 4, 1863                              

Other interesting information discovered:

Hugh Rodgers was born in Pennsylvania on 8/15/1830 where he learned stair building and joiner work.  Hugh married Rachel Evans in 1835, together they had three children. He helped to finish the building of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Chesterville, Ohio.  Rachel died in 1870. Hug then married Eliza Bruce, no children were born of this union. Hugh received an invalid pension on 3/10/1879. Eliza Rodgers received a widows pension after Hugh’s death in 1899.

After the war Hugh returned to Morrow County where he purchased land in Harmony township and Chester township.  On the property is located the Roger Lake comprising of seven acres. Hugh Rodgers was elected to represent Morrow County and Marion County in the Legislature of 1893. In his social relations, he was a member of the G.A.R., in which he served two years as Post Commander.

Date of Death:  December 30,1899                Place of burial:  Maple Grove Cemetery, Chesterville, OH

Adopted By:                                                     Researcher: Velda L Montgomery