Captain Hugh Stevens Doggett

Captain Hugh Stephens Doggett CSA

ABOUT:

Birth: May 11, 1816 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, USA

Death:

Oct. 14, 1899 in Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA

Married Sarah Adeline Burruss in November 1844 and father of four.
Burial :  Confederate Cemetery, Fredericksburg City, Virginia, USA  Plot: Section 1, Lot 20, Grave 9

Residence:	Fredericksburg, Virginia
Occupation & Public Service:	Grocer City Council 1858 Cabinet Maker, Furniture Shop Justice of The Peace 1855 Magistrate, Fredericksburg Mayor of Fredericksburg during Reconstruction National Bank Director Knights Templar Member St. George's Delegate St. George Vestryman
Enlistment Date:	18 Apr 1862
Side Served:	Confederacy
State Served:	Virginia
Service Record:	Enlisted as a Private on 18 April 1862. Enlisted in Company B, 30th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 18 Apr 1862. Transferred into Regiment U.S. Veteran Reserve Corps on 14 Mar 1865. Transferred out of Company B, 30th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 14 Mar 1865

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Detail of Military Service: Summary:  Hugh S. Doggett enlisted into the Confederate Army as a Private on the 18th of April, 1862 with the local militia company called the Fredericksburg Grays which became  Company B, 30th Virginia July 1,1861.  Hugh S. Doggett was later elected a Second Lieutenant. Later this same year he was wounded in Sharpsburg, Maryland on the 17th of September 1862.  A year later, on the 5th of September 1863 he was detached to Camp Lee to perform duty with prisoners.  A little under two years later, on the 14th of March 1865 he was transferred into the Veteran Reserve Corps. --- EXCERPT FROM BOOK BY CLEMENT ANSELM EVANS TITLED CONFEDERATE MILITARY HISTORY; a library of Confederate States History Captain Hugh S. Doggett, of Fredericksburg, Va., a venerable veteran of the army of Northern Virginia, is the son of Lemuel Doggett, a soldier of the war of 1812. The latter married Sarah Meredith Doggett, and three of their children survive: L. B. Doggett, of Chicago, late a private of the Thirtieth Vir- ginia regiment; James M. Doggett, of Spotsylvania county, and Captain Hugh S. Doggett. The latter was born at Fredericksburg, May, 1816, and was reared there and in that vicinity until he was sixteen years old, when he entered upon an apprenticeship. After learning his trade he was thrown out of employment during the financial crisis of 1837, and failing to find work in Baltimore and other cities, he embarked in the grocery trade, which has been his steady occupation during the past sixty years, except when in the Confederate service. On November 28, 1844, he was married to Sarah A., daughter of William Burress, of Caroline county. From his eighteenth (18th) year Captain Doggett was a member of the volunteer company at Fredericksburg, which became Company B of the Thirtieth (13th) Regiment, and with it he went into service immediately upon the secession of Virginia, as First Lieu- tenant. On the day following the one on which the State went out of the Union he was in battle at Aquia Creek with Federal gunboats, and his next battle was at the route of McDowell's army at Manassas, July 21, 1861. His regiment was then ordered to Goldsboro, N. C., where he was on duty until the spring of 1862. At the reorganization, in May, he was elected captain of Company B, and he commanded his company throughout the Seven Days' battles and the previous fighting about Richmond, at Harper's Ferry, Sharpsburg, Fredericksburg, and all other battles in which his company participated. At Sharpsburg, he led twenty-five men into the fight and brought back but five, all the others being killed or wounded. He himself received three painful wounds, but, after a furlough of thirty days, resumed command. On the 4th of April, 1864, on account of his advanced age, he was detailed as post-commandant and provost-marshal at Fredericksburg, but still retained his captaincy, First Lieutenant James Knox commanding the company during the remainder of its service. Since the war Captain Doggett has been honored by a magistracy and a seat in the city council for many years, and has twice held the office of Mayor. His wife died January 13, 1885, and he has but one child living, Mrs. Fannie A. Scott; but through her this worthy Confederate veteran has seven grandchildren and one great-grand- child. - EOScript