Rodgers, John

Life Span
to
    Full name
    John Rodgers
    Place of Birth
    Birth Date Certainty
    Exact
    Death Date Certainty
    Exact
    Gender
    Male
    Race
    White
    Sectional choice
    North
    Origins
    Slave State
    No. of Spouses
    1
    No. of Children
    3
    Family
    John Rodgers (father), Minerva Denison (mother), Ann Elizabeth Hodge (wife), William L. Rodgers (son), Louisa Rodgers (daughter), Montgomery Cunningham Meigs (son-in-law), John Rodgers Meigs (grandson)
    Occupation
    Military
    Relation to Slavery
    White non-slaveholder
    Military
    US military (Pre-Civil War)
    Union Navy
    US military (Post-Civil War)

    John Rodgers (American National Biography)

    Scholarship
    After a brief tour in command of the Water Witch (1858-1859), Rodgers was assigned to the Japan Expedition Office in Washington, D.C., where he was serving when the secession of Virginia on 17 April 1861 led navy authorities to dispatch him to Norfolk the next day to help ensure that the navy facilities there did not fall into rebel hands. Rodgers was in the last boat to depart the Norfolk Navy Yard after it was set afire, and as a result, he was captured by Virginia forces. Since Virginia had not yet joined the Confederacy, however, he was released and allowed to return to Washington by train.
    Craig L. Symonds, "Rodgers, John," American National Biography Online, February 2000, http://www.anb.org/articles/05/05-00670.html.
    How to Cite This Page: "Rodgers, John," House Divided: The Civil War Research Engine at Dickinson College, https://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/6504.