Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Roger Buckley

Roger Buckley, b. 1838; enlisted in the army as Sergt. of Co. A.,Fifteenth Iowa Reg.; was picket officer (with rank of Capt.) on the staff of Brig.-Gen. G. A. Smith, commanding the Fourth Division of the Seventh Army Corps; was struck by a ball from a rebel sharpshooter, 13 Jan., 1865, and fell mortally wounded; was rem. to Beaufort and d. three days afterward.

SOURCE: Timothy Hopkins, The Kelloggs In The Old World And The New, Volume 2, p. 1783

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