Please answer the following question: Facts: - death date: 8 december 1898 - allegiance: usa america united states of america csa confederate states of - rank: 35px master - birth date: 1828 - serviceyears: 1863 & ndash ; 1865 - name: thomas egenton hogg - branch: csa - laterwork: railroad promoter , corvallis , oregon - death place: philadelphia , pennsylvania - birth place: baltimore , maryland Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of thomas egenton hogg .
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thomas egenton hogg -lrb- 1828 -- 1898 -rrb- was a master in the confederate states navy who participated in raids on union ships during the american civil war .he was captured and sentenced to death , but was eventually released from prison , after which he became a businessman and railroad promoter in the u.s. state of oregon .he worked to build the oregon pacific railroad , though his dream to create a transcontinental railroad with its western terminus on the oregon coast was never realized .