The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-26
COLUMBIA, s. C.
Saturday Morning, June 20. 1889.

Saturday Morning, June 20. 1889.
History OF = Consummate scoundreI.
The Augusta Constitutionalist gives the
following history of one Andrew J.
Rogers, who has been arrested in Provi-
asnce, r. l., on s,charge OF fraud:
The notorious individual alluded to
was never Colonel in the Confederate
service. He enlisted as private in Com
pany Ct, Third Georgia Regiment, in
this city, under the name Of Andrew j.
Livingston, in She spring Of 1861, and
went to Norfolk, Va, in that regiment.
Shortly after reaching Virginia, he de-
serted, and in attempting to make his
way back to Georgia, was arrested by
General (then ColoneD Daniel, who.
with his regiment, was at the time sta
toned at Suffolk. He was tried for de-
aartion, convicted, and sentenced to be
shot; but, by some unaccountable acci-
dent, the proceedings and decision of
the court was lost or mislaid in Rich
nond, and Rogers alias Livingston was
kept in close confinement until the
spring Of 1862, when he was, by direc-
tion Of the Secretary of War, drummed
out Of the service.
After the battles around Richmond,
into Maryland, Rogers, by some sort of
rascality, procured o Captains commits.
sion, and raised small company of CO.
yalry for service on the York and lower
james Rivers, and around Richmond.
This command soon became terror to
all good people on account of their rob-
berries and other lawless acts committed
on the people. Rogers kept his head
quarters and an Office in Richmond,
where he also carried on the substitute
business. With half dozen worthless
scoundrels in his employment, he was
constantly furnishing substitutes, who
would serve day or two, desert, return
to Rogers, offer themselves again, and
again, after pocketing the money, desert.
This business Rogers and his band of
thieves kept up until the fall of Rich
mond, when he retired with an escort of
thirty or forty mounted men and
wagon train large enough for nh army
corps. This train of wagons. ambu-
lances and teams was taken from him by
General Breckenridge, then Secretary of
War, on the 14th or 18th of April 1865,
at Greensboro, N. @.
The next we hear of Rogers, he had
gone on to New York in the latter part
of the summer of 1866, taking with him
forged railroad receipts for large num-
Der of bales of cotton along the line of
the Gulf Railroad, below Doctor Town.
Arrived with these bogus receipts, he
plunged into Wall street, where he soon
sold large amount of the cotton which
he pretended to have receipts for, and
transferred the latter to tho several pur-
chasers. Getting the money in his pos
session, he returned to Savannah, accom-
panied by an agent of the parties to
whom he had sold the cotton, and to
whom he was to make the deliveries
A steamer was duly chartered in Sa-
vannah to go round to Darien and
thence up the river to Doctor Town,
where the cotton was to be brought up
by rail and shipped to Savannah.
Everything was got ready for the trip
number of invited guests were on
board to enjoy the excursion-.the cham
pagne and ice and segars were duly
stored-the ships stores all on board,
when Rogers, jest as the boat was about
to cut loose from the wharf, suddenly
ascertained that he had left some i'm
portant papers at the hotel. He would
not detain the boat, il could go on, and
he, with his 2-40 horse and fine buggy,
would cut across the neck and intercept
the boat at Thunderbolt, only four miles
by land, while it was distant by water
some sixteen or eighteen miles.
The boat left and so did Rogers When
the steamer reached Thunderbolt, Rogers
was not there. They waited couple OF
hours, and then concluded that Rogers
might have been delayed longer than he
anticipated, and that he would 90 on
across the country and meet the party at
Doctor Town. Thither the boat started,
but from that day to this, Rogers has
not been found.
It is needless to say that no cotton was
procured on that trip.
AN IMMENSE PEACH ORCHARD cor
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