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Maj Asbury Thornton Rogers

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Maj Asbury Thornton Rogers

Birth
Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
Death
6 Nov 1888 (aged 60)
Crabtree, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
Burial
Clyde, Haywood County, North Carolina, USA
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Asbury began adulthood as a schoolteacher and farmer. When the Civil War loomed, Asbury enlisted and was chosen as a Company Commander of CO A, 62nd Regiment of the CSA, serving under Colonel Robert Love. This regiment, after being baptized in blood on many hard-fought battlefields, was captured at Cumberland Gap, and the regular soldiers were sent to the prison at Camp Douglas,(near Chicago). Conditions in the prison were horrible and many died. Asbury and the other officers were sent to a prison for officers at Johnson's Island off the coast of Sandusky, Ohio. Somewhere along the line, Asbury was promoted to Major. He survived almost two years in prison and made his way home after the war, married and fathered ten children. But the effects of the war and imprisonment damaged his heart and mind, and he did not live to raise his young family. Five of the children died at very young ages. His wife Lorena was a widow for 46 years, an invalid for many of the last ones.
Asbury began adulthood as a schoolteacher and farmer. When the Civil War loomed, Asbury enlisted and was chosen as a Company Commander of CO A, 62nd Regiment of the CSA, serving under Colonel Robert Love. This regiment, after being baptized in blood on many hard-fought battlefields, was captured at Cumberland Gap, and the regular soldiers were sent to the prison at Camp Douglas,(near Chicago). Conditions in the prison were horrible and many died. Asbury and the other officers were sent to a prison for officers at Johnson's Island off the coast of Sandusky, Ohio. Somewhere along the line, Asbury was promoted to Major. He survived almost two years in prison and made his way home after the war, married and fathered ten children. But the effects of the war and imprisonment damaged his heart and mind, and he did not live to raise his young family. Five of the children died at very young ages. His wife Lorena was a widow for 46 years, an invalid for many of the last ones.

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