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 p93  Alfred H. Rogers
No. 2453. Class of 1873.
Died April 30th, 1879, at Washington, D. C., Aged 31.

Alfred Hibbard Rogers, son of Capt. Alfred Rogers, a wealthy merchant of Cincinnati, was born at New Orleans, La., February 6th, 1848. He was partly educated at Perth Amboy, N. J., and was afterwards sent to the Western Military Institute, at Dayton, Ohio, where he graduated, June 28th, 1868, with the highest honors, receiving the degrees of A. M. and Bachelor of Science. Immediately afterwards he entered the Military Academy, and graduated four years later with the Class of 1872. He was first assigned to the 15th Infantry, but, December 12th, 1872, was transferred to the 8th Cavalry. He served at Forts Union and Bascom, N. M., and scouting in Colorado and Indian Territory, until February, 1875. From the latter date, until June 28th, 1878, when he was placed on the retired list, Rogers was in Washington on sick leave of absence, and continued to reside there until his death the following year.

 p94  While at West Point he suffered from disease of the lungs, and many of his class-mates predicted for him but a short career. His health was at first much improved by his service in New Mexico, but the hardships incident to the life of a cavalry soldier told rapidly on his constitution, and rendered him unable to continue on active duty.

Rogers, but as a cadet and later as an officer, was extremely popular. When a plebe, though not among the oldest of his class, he exercised a great influence and was much respected and liked by all his class-mates.

He was early picked out by us as the adjutant of our class, but his lack of ambition (due, most likely, to the disease that already had attacked him) prevented the fulfillment of our expectations. For the same reason his class rank was not commensurate with his abilities.

He was a man of high character; and, although for the last years of his life an invalid and a constant sufferer, knowing that death might seize him at any moment, he showed that courage to meet it which conscious rectitude alone gives.

(Lieutenant S. E. Blunt.)

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