ROGERSVILLE, Engagements at On 5 Nov. 1863 Col. Israel Garrard, with the 7th Ohio Cavalry, 2d Tennessee mounted infantry, and a battery of four guns, occupied Rogers= ville, Tenn., camping near the town. Durine day Gen. W. E. Jones, with about 2,500 the 00 Confederate cavalry, crossed the Holston River near Kingsport, made a night march by roads badly guarded and at daybreak of the 6th sur prised and captured Garrard's outposts, and ad. vanced toward his camp, attacking and routing the 7th Ohio, Garrard and a few of his men escaping to Morristown. Jones then attacked the Tennessee regiment, which made a good resistance, but was soon surrounded and obliged to surrender. The ',intern loss was about •20 killed and wounded, with 650 • men, four two colors, 1,000 horses and mules and wagons and ambulances captured. The Confed erate loss, as reported, was 10 killed and wounded. News of the disaster caused a hasty retreat of the,Union forces from Jonesboro and Greeneville to Bull's Gap,,where it was learned that Jones had not advanced beyond Rogers• ville and the retreat ended. At the same time Jones retreated in,an •opposite direction to the Virginia lint.
On 21 Aug. 1864' Rogersville was held by a small force of CoTI federate cavalry, under Colonel Watkins, which was attacked at day break by a detachment of the 13th Tennessee cavalry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Ingerton. Several Confederates were killed and wounded and Watkins, with 25 of his men, captured, the remainder escaping to Kingsport. On 8 Oct. 1864 Gen. John C. Vaughn, having driven a Union force from Kingsport, followed it to Rogersville and attacked with his brigade, kill ing 10 and wounding several Union troops and driving the remainder to Bull's Gap. On 10
December Gen. A. C. Gillem, with a Union brigade, marched from Knoxville, on the 12th drove in the pickets of General Duke's brigade, and followed to Big Creek, four miles from Rogersville, where the Confederates had taken a strong position. With a part of his command Gillem made a flank movement, charged with the other part and drove the Confederates from position and through Rogersville, in the direc tion of Kingsport, where they were overtaken next day and routed, with some loss. Consult 'Official Records,' Vols. XXXI, XX XIX and XLV. E. A. CARMAN.
ROGET, Peter Mark, English physician: b. London, 18 Jan. 1779; d. Malvern, Worcestershire, 12 Sept. 1869. He was edu cated at the University of Edinburgh and was appointed physician to the Manchester Infirmary in 1804. In 1808 he removed to London, where he became physician to the Northern Dispen sary. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1815 and for 20 years served as its secretary. He was professor of physiology at the Royal Institute in 1833-36 and in 1837 was active in the establishment of the University of London, in the senate of which he continued a member until his death. He retired from prac tice in 1840 and devoted himself to literature and to mechanics, for which he had decided talent. He wrote'Animal and Vegetable Phys iology Considered with Reference to Natural Theology> (1834) ; 'Physiology and Phrenol ogy.) (1838) ; and the famous 'Thesarus of English Words and Phrases> (1852).