William Peleg Rogers

William Peleg Rogers (December 17, 1819 – October 4, 1862) was a Texan lawyer and political activist and a Confederate army officer.

After service in the Mexican War, he strongly supported the cause of secession from the Union, and became colonel of the 2nd Texas Infantry Regiment, Confederate States Army, at the outset of the Civil War.

He was killed in action while leading his regiment in a final charge on the last day of the Second Battle of Corinth, Mississippi. His bravery was noted by the foe.

Early life William Peleg Rogers, son of Timothy Lincoln and Mary Rogers, was born in Georgia, on December 27, 1819. His parents were then living in Alabama, but in early boyhood his father removed the family to north Mississippi and settled on a plantation near Aberdeen, Monroe county, where William was reared and educated.

Rogers inherited the military inclination from his father, who had served as captain in the Indian wars under General Andrew Jackson. Civil War Rogers was offered the command of a regiment in Virginia, but at the solicitation of his wife, accepted instead the rank of lieutenant-colonel of the 2nd Texas Infantry. In the spring of 1862 this command was sent east of the Mississippi, and Colonel Rogers, detained by illness, joined the regiment on the eve of the battle of Shiloh, in which he participated with distinction and the 2nd Texas lost more than one third of its men in casualties. or otherwise. Directly in the foreground lies a Confederate soldier who had been swept along in the charge against the ramparts of Battery Robinett, to fall within 50 yds (46 m) of the goal. The granting of full military honors for Rogers's burial was a ceremony usually reserved for general officers.

Personal life On January 15, 1840, Rogers married Martha of Tuscaloosa, Alabama. They had six children who all became Baylor graduates. His other brother, Captain Tim L. Rogers, of the 7th Mississippi, died at Aberdeen on September 17, 1869, in his thirty-fifth year.