ROGERS, Orville Kempton

Other Events and Attributes:

• Milit-Beg: 11 Sep 1862, VT; Co. G., 13th Inf. Regt.
• Milit-End: 26 Nov 1862

Notes:

Died in the Civil War.

ORVILLE K. ROGERS was born in Montgomery in 1841, volunteered on the 20th day of September and joined Company G on the same day and in less than 30 days was on the front line doing picket duty like a veteran soldier. He was a jovial happy young fellow, anxious to serve his country as a soldier. A farmer boy with limited opportunities for an education. His habits were such as the environments of the locality where born and bred induced. Though young, vigorous and hopeful, yet he was not equal to the test of living in a cotton tent with cold, damp ground and a rubber blanket for a bed. He was taken sick with pneumonia or lung fever, taken to the hospital and in a few days, November 25, 1862, offered his young life on the altar of his country. A humble life, a rich reward and an imperishable honor. Source: History of the 13th Regiment Vermont Volunteers

Died:
Civil War soldier, Pvt, Co. G. 13th Vermont Infantry.

He died of disease.
The only battle that came immediately before his death is one that took place in Philomont, VA, where calvary from the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, met the Union Army of the Potomac. There were 13 Confederates KIA, and 15 Union soldiers KIA.

The battles at Antietam, VA, Sep-Oct, 1862 is also a possibility.