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Andrew Jackson Coger was born on September 8, 1834. On August 20, 1862, he was enlisted as a "Quarter Sergeant" in the army of the Confederate States of America by Captain G. W. Imboden, reporting for active duty on September 4, 1862. He was attached to Co. I, 1st Regiment, Virginia Partisan Rangers, and later Company G, 62nd Regiment, Virginia Mounted Infantry. Andrew Jackson Coger and brother James Coger were taken prisoner by Union forces on September 20, 1863 and held in the Atheneum Military Prison in Wheeling, West Virginia from September 20 to October 20, 1863. At the time of his capture, Jackson was recorded to be 29 years of age, five feet, eleven and one half inches tall, having dark complextion and hair, and blue eyes. He reported his occupation as that of a farmer. Andrew Jackson was my great grandfather. Photo provided by Steve Coger, Danville, AR.
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