Background
ROGERS, Samuel St. George was born on June 30, 1832 in Pulaski, Tennessee, United States, United States.
ROGERS, Samuel St. George was born on June 30, 1832 in Pulaski, Tennessee, United States, United States.
He studied law in Columbus, Georgia. He was a large landholder and a lawyer who began his law practice in Ocala, Marion County, Florida, in 1851. During the 1850s, he became colonel of the Ocala Militia, and he defended the town against the Seminole Indians.
He was a strong secessionist. When the Civil War began, he volunteered for duty in the Confederate Army. During the war, he was a major and later a lieutenant colonel in the Marion Light Artillery.
He also commanded the 2nd Florida Infantry in 1862, and in 1863, he served in P.G.T. Beauregard's Corps as a member of the military court of the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Rogers succeeded John M. Martin in the second Confederate House of Representatives. He was elected because of his dedicated service to the Confederate cause.
In the second House, he served on the Enrolled Bills, Impressments, Indian Affairs, and Naval Affairs Committees, and on special committees concerning conscription, increasing the military force, and lessening the number of exemptions. He supported the Davis administration on a majority of issues. He returned to his plantation when the war ended and held no postwar political office.
"Peculiar institution" of slavery was not only expedient but also ordained by God and upheld in Holy Scripture.
Stands for preserving slavery, states' rights, and political liberty for whites. Every individual state is sovereign, even to the point of secession.
