Veteran: Civil War (CSA) killed
NOTE: His government issued stone is believed, by me, to be a CENOTAPH, because the records reviewed all stated his burial location is unknown other than in the field at Gettysburg, also ~ ~ View.
h/o Sarah "Sallie" A F Wilson.
Birth: 3rd of father's five known children, 4th of mother's seven known children, in Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia.
~ ~ ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND:
MATERNAL, the North Carolina Gregory family, his great,grandparents were, James and Patience (Godwin) Gregory, she a daughter, 9th of ten known children, of Thomas Godwin, III, his older half-sister, Mary Ann, married father of Rev Thomas Hume, baby sister Margaret married Judge James Francis Crocker.
PATERNAL, emigrating, most likely, into the Tidewater region with earliest record being 17 March 1754 will of William Hodges, whose grandson was Brigadier General John Hodges of the War of 1812, one of the most noted citizens of Norfolk county for his high character, intelligence, wealth, social position and for his public services. In 1826 in the House of Delegates, later serving as Postmaster of Portsmouth till 1840, father of five, including Dr Hodges, married three times, last to Mrs Dr Richard Bayham Gregory (Jane Adelaide Gregory) her second marriage, first with three children. The General once owned Wildwood Plantation on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, also known as Hodges' Ferry because he operated a ferry over to Portsmouth, whose youngest daughter married Judge James Francis Crocker in 1866 who among his many other achievements, maintained a great skill of researching and profusely penning his findings of family's genealogical and Civil War's histories.
He and David Jeremiah Godwin married sisters, and James Francis Crocker married his baby sister.
~ Old Dominion University's, Special Collections & University Archives, Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
MG-49 Hodges Family Papers, 1754-1979. 1 Hollinger Documents Case; 1 Oversized Box.
Contains correspondence dating from the Civil War between William H. H. Hodges to his wife Abigail while a prisoner of the Union army. The collection also contains information on Colonel James Gregory Hodges of the 14th Virginia Regiment killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, July 1863. The correspondence of Union Captain Ainsworth, a Hodges family relative through marriage, contains letters of recommendation for distinguished service during the war from General A. H. Terry and General O. O. Babcock, Grant's aide-de-camp.
Most interesting is the information provided by Col James Gregory Hodges' older lame half-brother, William Henry Harrison Hodges' granddaughter in a 1981 interview, regarding his being somewhat lame, a banker who was imprisoned by Gen Benjamin "The Beast" Butler when refusing to turn over the assets of the bank to the Union officer during occupation of Portsmouth during the Civil War.
James Gregory Hodges was reportedly, educated at once famous Literary, Scientific and Military Academy of Portsmouth, of which Capt. Alden Partridge, A M., of New England, was superintendent. His associate professors were: William L. Lee, A. B., professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and civil engineering; William H. H. Davis, A. B., professor of mathematics, topographical drawing, military instructor and teacher of fencing; Lucius D.Pierce, A. B., professor of ancient languages; Moses Jean Odend'hal, professor of modern languages, and H. Myers, instructor of martial music. To show the high character of this school, his father, Gen. John Hodges, was its president. The school had a large number of cadets. Of these cadets James Gregory Hodges, of the senior department, and John Collins Woodley, the brother of the late Dr. Joseph R. Woodley, of the junior department, were by common consent elected to decide all disputes that arose among the cadets; and such was the cadets' great admiration and respect for their high character and judgment that all readily acquiesced in their decisions. He obtained his medical education at the University of Virginia.
Dr Hodges, of Portsmouth, as a medical doctor, one of few serving the public throughout the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic where reportedly, one in three persons died, served as mayor in 1856, first mayor when the city was incorporated in 1858, He entered military service with wife's brother-in-law, David Jeremiah Godwin, a twenty-five plus year law partner of James Francis Crocker, later to be in the 14th Virginia which in part from James F Crocker's 1909 paper (who also had served at Gettysburg ~ ~ three years later married Dr Hodges youngest sister).
Census: 1860, age 31 Portsmouth, Virginia with wife & one child, a physician, worth, $15,350 real estate & $14,300 personal, next listed is David Jeremiah Godwin
The United States authorities closed the doors of the navy yard during April 1861 and began the destruction of its buildings, its ships and stores. It was an act of war and was so regarded by all.
On morning of the April 21st, 1861, Col. Hodges, with Lt Col Godwin, under the order of Gen. William B. Taliaferro, entered the navy yard to take charge, to restore order and to protect what was left and to turn the yard over to the state of Virginia.
August 7th, 1861, Gen. John B Magruder ordered to Hodges' command two other infantry companies and two companies of cavalry, and directed him to proceed to Hampton and destroy the town. In his account of his expedition to his wife, says:
It grieved me sorely to have to destroy the town, but I believe it is all for the best, as it embarrasses the enemy very much and takes from them elegant winter quarters whilst our troops will have to suffer in log huts and tents. I went into many houses which formerly had been well taken care of; the furniture was broken to pieces and scattered all through the houses. They were filled with filth of every description, and most obscene expressions written all over the walls. If I had lived and owned a house there I would willingly have applied the torch to it rather than have had it desecrated in the way the whole town had been.
Then Col. James Gregory Hodges, of the 14th Virginia, of Armistead's brigade, 14th consisting of companies from Chesterfield, Amelia, Bedford, Fluvanna, Halifax, and Mecklenburg counties, organized in May 1861, entering Confederate service at Richmond on July 1, 1861, the Colonel fell instantly killed at the foot of the stone wall, of the Bloody Angle, and around and over his dead body there was literally a pile of his dead officers around him, including gallant Major Robert H Poore. On the occasion of the reunion of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg, 1887, General Hunt, chief of the Federal artillery at this battle, who had known Col Hodges before the war, pointed out to me [James F Crocker] where he saw him lying dead among his comrades. He led his regiment in this memorable charge with conspicuous courage and gallantry. He was an able and experienced officer. At the breaking out of the war he was Colonel of the Third Virginia Volunteers, and from 20th April, 1861, until he fell at Gettysburg he served with distinguished ability, zeal and gallantry his State and the Confederacy. He was with his regiment in every battle in which it was engaged in the war (the Battles of Southern (Seven?) Pines, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk and in the charge of Pickett's Division which Armistead's Brigade was a part of at Gettysburg). He commanded the love and confidence of his men, and they cheerfully and fearlessly ever followed his lead. His memory deserves to be cherished and held in the highest esteem by his city, to which by his virtues, character and patriotic service he brought honor and consideration.
~ Gettysburg:
Armistead's Brigade- Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead (mw/c), Col. William R. Aylett (w)
9th Virginia Infantry- Maj. John C. Owens (mw)
14th Virginia Infantry- Col. James G. Hodges (k), Lt. Col. William White
38th Virginia Infantry- Col. Edward C. Edmonds (k), Lt. Col. Powhatan B. Whittle (w)
53rd Virginia Infantry- Col. William R. Aylett (w), Lt. Col. Rawley W. Martin (w/c)
57th Virginia Infantry- Col. John Bowie Magruder (mw/c)
Death: in battle at Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Specific site currently unknown. Report was in the field near where he fell. A government marker exists in Cedar Grove cemetery at Portsmouth and markers exist in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Virginia for unidentified bodies re-interred there from battle site of Gettysburg.
Father: Gen John Hodges b: 31 DEC 1786 Virginia.
Mother: Jane Adelaide Gregory b: 11 JAN 1794 North Carolina.
Marriage: Sarah A F Wilson b: 1830 Virginia.
Married: 2 AUG 1852 Norfolk, Virginia.
Known Children
William Wilson Hodges b: 29 APR 1854 Portsmouth, Virginia.
John Nelson Hodges b: 19 DEC 1860 Portsmouth, Virginia.
SOURCES reviewed and in part used above:
Southern Historical Society papers - Volume 37 - Page 184 -
Address By Judge JAMES F. CROCKER, Before Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, Portsmouth, Va., June 18th, 1909.
http://www.gdg.org/Research/SHSP/shcrocke.html
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/hodges.htm
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/oralhistory/tidewater/hooktranscript.html
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/odu/vino00022.document
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0295%3Achapter%3D1.13
Transferred and revised November 2012
NOTE: His government issued stone is believed, by me, to be a CENOTAPH, because the records reviewed all stated his burial location is unknown other than in the field at Gettysburg, also ~ ~ View.
h/o Sarah "Sallie" A F Wilson.
Birth: 3rd of father's five known children, 4th of mother's seven known children, in Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia.
~ ~ ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND:
MATERNAL, the North Carolina Gregory family, his great,grandparents were, James and Patience (Godwin) Gregory, she a daughter, 9th of ten known children, of Thomas Godwin, III, his older half-sister, Mary Ann, married father of Rev Thomas Hume, baby sister Margaret married Judge James Francis Crocker.
PATERNAL, emigrating, most likely, into the Tidewater region with earliest record being 17 March 1754 will of William Hodges, whose grandson was Brigadier General John Hodges of the War of 1812, one of the most noted citizens of Norfolk county for his high character, intelligence, wealth, social position and for his public services. In 1826 in the House of Delegates, later serving as Postmaster of Portsmouth till 1840, father of five, including Dr Hodges, married three times, last to Mrs Dr Richard Bayham Gregory (Jane Adelaide Gregory) her second marriage, first with three children. The General once owned Wildwood Plantation on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, also known as Hodges' Ferry because he operated a ferry over to Portsmouth, whose youngest daughter married Judge James Francis Crocker in 1866 who among his many other achievements, maintained a great skill of researching and profusely penning his findings of family's genealogical and Civil War's histories.
He and David Jeremiah Godwin married sisters, and James Francis Crocker married his baby sister.
~ Old Dominion University's, Special Collections & University Archives, Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
MG-49 Hodges Family Papers, 1754-1979. 1 Hollinger Documents Case; 1 Oversized Box.
Contains correspondence dating from the Civil War between William H. H. Hodges to his wife Abigail while a prisoner of the Union army. The collection also contains information on Colonel James Gregory Hodges of the 14th Virginia Regiment killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, July 1863. The correspondence of Union Captain Ainsworth, a Hodges family relative through marriage, contains letters of recommendation for distinguished service during the war from General A. H. Terry and General O. O. Babcock, Grant's aide-de-camp.
Most interesting is the information provided by Col James Gregory Hodges' older lame half-brother, William Henry Harrison Hodges' granddaughter in a 1981 interview, regarding his being somewhat lame, a banker who was imprisoned by Gen Benjamin "The Beast" Butler when refusing to turn over the assets of the bank to the Union officer during occupation of Portsmouth during the Civil War.
James Gregory Hodges was reportedly, educated at once famous Literary, Scientific and Military Academy of Portsmouth, of which Capt. Alden Partridge, A M., of New England, was superintendent. His associate professors were: William L. Lee, A. B., professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and civil engineering; William H. H. Davis, A. B., professor of mathematics, topographical drawing, military instructor and teacher of fencing; Lucius D.Pierce, A. B., professor of ancient languages; Moses Jean Odend'hal, professor of modern languages, and H. Myers, instructor of martial music. To show the high character of this school, his father, Gen. John Hodges, was its president. The school had a large number of cadets. Of these cadets James Gregory Hodges, of the senior department, and John Collins Woodley, the brother of the late Dr. Joseph R. Woodley, of the junior department, were by common consent elected to decide all disputes that arose among the cadets; and such was the cadets' great admiration and respect for their high character and judgment that all readily acquiesced in their decisions. He obtained his medical education at the University of Virginia.
Dr Hodges, of Portsmouth, as a medical doctor, one of few serving the public throughout the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic where reportedly, one in three persons died, served as mayor in 1856, first mayor when the city was incorporated in 1858, He entered military service with wife's brother-in-law, David Jeremiah Godwin, a twenty-five plus year law partner of James Francis Crocker, later to be in the 14th Virginia which in part from James F Crocker's 1909 paper (who also had served at Gettysburg ~ ~ three years later married Dr Hodges youngest sister).
Census: 1860, age 31 Portsmouth, Virginia with wife & one child, a physician, worth, $15,350 real estate & $14,300 personal, next listed is David Jeremiah Godwin
The United States authorities closed the doors of the navy yard during April 1861 and began the destruction of its buildings, its ships and stores. It was an act of war and was so regarded by all.
On morning of the April 21st, 1861, Col. Hodges, with Lt Col Godwin, under the order of Gen. William B. Taliaferro, entered the navy yard to take charge, to restore order and to protect what was left and to turn the yard over to the state of Virginia.
August 7th, 1861, Gen. John B Magruder ordered to Hodges' command two other infantry companies and two companies of cavalry, and directed him to proceed to Hampton and destroy the town. In his account of his expedition to his wife, says:
It grieved me sorely to have to destroy the town, but I believe it is all for the best, as it embarrasses the enemy very much and takes from them elegant winter quarters whilst our troops will have to suffer in log huts and tents. I went into many houses which formerly had been well taken care of; the furniture was broken to pieces and scattered all through the houses. They were filled with filth of every description, and most obscene expressions written all over the walls. If I had lived and owned a house there I would willingly have applied the torch to it rather than have had it desecrated in the way the whole town had been.
Then Col. James Gregory Hodges, of the 14th Virginia, of Armistead's brigade, 14th consisting of companies from Chesterfield, Amelia, Bedford, Fluvanna, Halifax, and Mecklenburg counties, organized in May 1861, entering Confederate service at Richmond on July 1, 1861, the Colonel fell instantly killed at the foot of the stone wall, of the Bloody Angle, and around and over his dead body there was literally a pile of his dead officers around him, including gallant Major Robert H Poore. On the occasion of the reunion of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg, 1887, General Hunt, chief of the Federal artillery at this battle, who had known Col Hodges before the war, pointed out to me [James F Crocker] where he saw him lying dead among his comrades. He led his regiment in this memorable charge with conspicuous courage and gallantry. He was an able and experienced officer. At the breaking out of the war he was Colonel of the Third Virginia Volunteers, and from 20th April, 1861, until he fell at Gettysburg he served with distinguished ability, zeal and gallantry his State and the Confederacy. He was with his regiment in every battle in which it was engaged in the war (the Battles of Southern (Seven?) Pines, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk and in the charge of Pickett's Division which Armistead's Brigade was a part of at Gettysburg). He commanded the love and confidence of his men, and they cheerfully and fearlessly ever followed his lead. His memory deserves to be cherished and held in the highest esteem by his city, to which by his virtues, character and patriotic service he brought honor and consideration.
~ Gettysburg:
Armistead's Brigade- Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead (mw/c), Col. William R. Aylett (w)
9th Virginia Infantry- Maj. John C. Owens (mw)
14th Virginia Infantry- Col. James G. Hodges (k), Lt. Col. William White
38th Virginia Infantry- Col. Edward C. Edmonds (k), Lt. Col. Powhatan B. Whittle (w)
53rd Virginia Infantry- Col. William R. Aylett (w), Lt. Col. Rawley W. Martin (w/c)
57th Virginia Infantry- Col. John Bowie Magruder (mw/c)
Death: in battle at Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Specific site currently unknown. Report was in the field near where he fell. A government marker exists in Cedar Grove cemetery at Portsmouth and markers exist in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Virginia for unidentified bodies re-interred there from battle site of Gettysburg.
Father: Gen John Hodges b: 31 DEC 1786 Virginia.
Mother: Jane Adelaide Gregory b: 11 JAN 1794 North Carolina.
Marriage: Sarah A F Wilson b: 1830 Virginia.
Married: 2 AUG 1852 Norfolk, Virginia.
Known Children
William Wilson Hodges b: 29 APR 1854 Portsmouth, Virginia.
John Nelson Hodges b: 19 DEC 1860 Portsmouth, Virginia.
SOURCES reviewed and in part used above:
Southern Historical Society papers - Volume 37 - Page 184 -
Address By Judge JAMES F. CROCKER, Before Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, Portsmouth, Va., June 18th, 1909.
http://www.gdg.org/Research/SHSP/shcrocke.html
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/hodges.htm
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/oralhistory/tidewater/hooktranscript.html
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/odu/vino00022.document
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0295%3Achapter%3D1.13
Transferred and revised November 2012
Veteran: Civil War (CSA) killed
NOTE: His government issued stone is believed, by me, to be a CENOTAPH, because the records reviewed all stated his burial location is unknown other than in the field at Gettysburg, also ~ ~ View.
h/o Sarah "Sallie" A F Wilson.
Birth: 3rd of father's five known children, 4th of mother's seven known children, in Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia.
~ ~ ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND:
MATERNAL, the North Carolina Gregory family, his great,grandparents were, James and Patience (Godwin) Gregory, she a daughter, 9th of ten known children, of Thomas Godwin, III, his older half-sister, Mary Ann, married father of Rev Thomas Hume, baby sister Margaret married Judge James Francis Crocker.
PATERNAL, emigrating, most likely, into the Tidewater region with earliest record being 17 March 1754 will of William Hodges, whose grandson was Brigadier General John Hodges of the War of 1812, one of the most noted citizens of Norfolk county for his high character, intelligence, wealth, social position and for his public services. In 1826 in the House of Delegates, later serving as Postmaster of Portsmouth till 1840, father of five, including Dr Hodges, married three times, last to Mrs Dr Richard Bayham Gregory (Jane Adelaide Gregory) her second marriage, first with three children. The General once owned Wildwood Plantation on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, also known as Hodges' Ferry because he operated a ferry over to Portsmouth, whose youngest daughter married Judge James Francis Crocker in 1866 who among his many other achievements, maintained a great skill of researching and profusely penning his findings of family's genealogical and Civil War's histories.
He and David Jeremiah Godwin married sisters, and James Francis Crocker married his baby sister.
~ Old Dominion University's, Special Collections & University Archives, Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
MG-49 Hodges Family Papers, 1754-1979. 1 Hollinger Documents Case; 1 Oversized Box.
Contains correspondence dating from the Civil War between William H. H. Hodges to his wife Abigail while a prisoner of the Union army. The collection also contains information on Colonel James Gregory Hodges of the 14th Virginia Regiment killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, July 1863. The correspondence of Union Captain Ainsworth, a Hodges family relative through marriage, contains letters of recommendation for distinguished service during the war from General A. H. Terry and General O. O. Babcock, Grant's aide-de-camp.
Most interesting is the information provided by Col James Gregory Hodges' older lame half-brother, William Henry Harrison Hodges' granddaughter in a 1981 interview, regarding his being somewhat lame, a banker who was imprisoned by Gen Benjamin "The Beast" Butler when refusing to turn over the assets of the bank to the Union officer during occupation of Portsmouth during the Civil War.
James Gregory Hodges was reportedly, educated at once famous Literary, Scientific and Military Academy of Portsmouth, of which Capt. Alden Partridge, A M., of New England, was superintendent. His associate professors were: William L. Lee, A. B., professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and civil engineering; William H. H. Davis, A. B., professor of mathematics, topographical drawing, military instructor and teacher of fencing; Lucius D.Pierce, A. B., professor of ancient languages; Moses Jean Odend'hal, professor of modern languages, and H. Myers, instructor of martial music. To show the high character of this school, his father, Gen. John Hodges, was its president. The school had a large number of cadets. Of these cadets James Gregory Hodges, of the senior department, and John Collins Woodley, the brother of the late Dr. Joseph R. Woodley, of the junior department, were by common consent elected to decide all disputes that arose among the cadets; and such was the cadets' great admiration and respect for their high character and judgment that all readily acquiesced in their decisions. He obtained his medical education at the University of Virginia.
Dr Hodges, of Portsmouth, as a medical doctor, one of few serving the public throughout the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic where reportedly, one in three persons died, served as mayor in 1856, first mayor when the city was incorporated in 1858, He entered military service with wife's brother-in-law, David Jeremiah Godwin, a twenty-five plus year law partner of James Francis Crocker, later to be in the 14th Virginia which in part from James F Crocker's 1909 paper (who also had served at Gettysburg ~ ~ three years later married Dr Hodges youngest sister).
Census: 1860, age 31 Portsmouth, Virginia with wife & one child, a physician, worth, $15,350 real estate & $14,300 personal, next listed is David Jeremiah Godwin
The United States authorities closed the doors of the navy yard during April 1861 and began the destruction of its buildings, its ships and stores. It was an act of war and was so regarded by all.
On morning of the April 21st, 1861, Col. Hodges, with Lt Col Godwin, under the order of Gen. William B. Taliaferro, entered the navy yard to take charge, to restore order and to protect what was left and to turn the yard over to the state of Virginia.
August 7th, 1861, Gen. John B Magruder ordered to Hodges' command two other infantry companies and two companies of cavalry, and directed him to proceed to Hampton and destroy the town. In his account of his expedition to his wife, says:
It grieved me sorely to have to destroy the town, but I believe it is all for the best, as it embarrasses the enemy very much and takes from them elegant winter quarters whilst our troops will have to suffer in log huts and tents. I went into many houses which formerly had been well taken care of; the furniture was broken to pieces and scattered all through the houses. They were filled with filth of every description, and most obscene expressions written all over the walls. If I had lived and owned a house there I would willingly have applied the torch to it rather than have had it desecrated in the way the whole town had been.
Then Col. James Gregory Hodges, of the 14th Virginia, of Armistead's brigade, 14th consisting of companies from Chesterfield, Amelia, Bedford, Fluvanna, Halifax, and Mecklenburg counties, organized in May 1861, entering Confederate service at Richmond on July 1, 1861, the Colonel fell instantly killed at the foot of the stone wall, of the Bloody Angle, and around and over his dead body there was literally a pile of his dead officers around him, including gallant Major Robert H Poore. On the occasion of the reunion of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg, 1887, General Hunt, chief of the Federal artillery at this battle, who had known Col Hodges before the war, pointed out to me [James F Crocker] where he saw him lying dead among his comrades. He led his regiment in this memorable charge with conspicuous courage and gallantry. He was an able and experienced officer. At the breaking out of the war he was Colonel of the Third Virginia Volunteers, and from 20th April, 1861, until he fell at Gettysburg he served with distinguished ability, zeal and gallantry his State and the Confederacy. He was with his regiment in every battle in which it was engaged in the war (the Battles of Southern (Seven?) Pines, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk and in the charge of Pickett's Division which Armistead's Brigade was a part of at Gettysburg). He commanded the love and confidence of his men, and they cheerfully and fearlessly ever followed his lead. His memory deserves to be cherished and held in the highest esteem by his city, to which by his virtues, character and patriotic service he brought honor and consideration.
~ Gettysburg:
Armistead's Brigade- Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead (mw/c), Col. William R. Aylett (w)
9th Virginia Infantry- Maj. John C. Owens (mw)
14th Virginia Infantry- Col. James G. Hodges (k), Lt. Col. William White
38th Virginia Infantry- Col. Edward C. Edmonds (k), Lt. Col. Powhatan B. Whittle (w)
53rd Virginia Infantry- Col. William R. Aylett (w), Lt. Col. Rawley W. Martin (w/c)
57th Virginia Infantry- Col. John Bowie Magruder (mw/c)
Death: in battle at Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Specific site currently unknown. Report was in the field near where he fell. A government marker exists in Cedar Grove cemetery at Portsmouth and markers exist in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Virginia for unidentified bodies re-interred there from battle site of Gettysburg.
Father: Gen John Hodges b: 31 DEC 1786 Virginia.
Mother: Jane Adelaide Gregory b: 11 JAN 1794 North Carolina.
Marriage: Sarah A F Wilson b: 1830 Virginia.
Married: 2 AUG 1852 Norfolk, Virginia.
Known Children
William Wilson Hodges b: 29 APR 1854 Portsmouth, Virginia.
John Nelson Hodges b: 19 DEC 1860 Portsmouth, Virginia.
SOURCES reviewed and in part used above:
Southern Historical Society papers - Volume 37 - Page 184 -
Address By Judge JAMES F. CROCKER, Before Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, Portsmouth, Va., June 18th, 1909.
http://www.gdg.org/Research/SHSP/shcrocke.html
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/hodges.htm
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/oralhistory/tidewater/hooktranscript.html
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/odu/vino00022.document
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0295%3Achapter%3D1.13
Transferred and revised November 2012
NOTE: His government issued stone is believed, by me, to be a CENOTAPH, because the records reviewed all stated his burial location is unknown other than in the field at Gettysburg, also ~ ~ View.
h/o Sarah "Sallie" A F Wilson.
Birth: 3rd of father's five known children, 4th of mother's seven known children, in Portsmouth, Norfolk county, Virginia.
~ ~ ANCESTRAL BACKGROUND:
MATERNAL, the North Carolina Gregory family, his great,grandparents were, James and Patience (Godwin) Gregory, she a daughter, 9th of ten known children, of Thomas Godwin, III, his older half-sister, Mary Ann, married father of Rev Thomas Hume, baby sister Margaret married Judge James Francis Crocker.
PATERNAL, emigrating, most likely, into the Tidewater region with earliest record being 17 March 1754 will of William Hodges, whose grandson was Brigadier General John Hodges of the War of 1812, one of the most noted citizens of Norfolk county for his high character, intelligence, wealth, social position and for his public services. In 1826 in the House of Delegates, later serving as Postmaster of Portsmouth till 1840, father of five, including Dr Hodges, married three times, last to Mrs Dr Richard Bayham Gregory (Jane Adelaide Gregory) her second marriage, first with three children. The General once owned Wildwood Plantation on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River, also known as Hodges' Ferry because he operated a ferry over to Portsmouth, whose youngest daughter married Judge James Francis Crocker in 1866 who among his many other achievements, maintained a great skill of researching and profusely penning his findings of family's genealogical and Civil War's histories.
He and David Jeremiah Godwin married sisters, and James Francis Crocker married his baby sister.
~ Old Dominion University's, Special Collections & University Archives, Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, Virginia.
MG-49 Hodges Family Papers, 1754-1979. 1 Hollinger Documents Case; 1 Oversized Box.
Contains correspondence dating from the Civil War between William H. H. Hodges to his wife Abigail while a prisoner of the Union army. The collection also contains information on Colonel James Gregory Hodges of the 14th Virginia Regiment killed during Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg, July 1863. The correspondence of Union Captain Ainsworth, a Hodges family relative through marriage, contains letters of recommendation for distinguished service during the war from General A. H. Terry and General O. O. Babcock, Grant's aide-de-camp.
Most interesting is the information provided by Col James Gregory Hodges' older lame half-brother, William Henry Harrison Hodges' granddaughter in a 1981 interview, regarding his being somewhat lame, a banker who was imprisoned by Gen Benjamin "The Beast" Butler when refusing to turn over the assets of the bank to the Union officer during occupation of Portsmouth during the Civil War.
James Gregory Hodges was reportedly, educated at once famous Literary, Scientific and Military Academy of Portsmouth, of which Capt. Alden Partridge, A M., of New England, was superintendent. His associate professors were: William L. Lee, A. B., professor of mathematics, natural philosophy and civil engineering; William H. H. Davis, A. B., professor of mathematics, topographical drawing, military instructor and teacher of fencing; Lucius D.Pierce, A. B., professor of ancient languages; Moses Jean Odend'hal, professor of modern languages, and H. Myers, instructor of martial music. To show the high character of this school, his father, Gen. John Hodges, was its president. The school had a large number of cadets. Of these cadets James Gregory Hodges, of the senior department, and John Collins Woodley, the brother of the late Dr. Joseph R. Woodley, of the junior department, were by common consent elected to decide all disputes that arose among the cadets; and such was the cadets' great admiration and respect for their high character and judgment that all readily acquiesced in their decisions. He obtained his medical education at the University of Virginia.
Dr Hodges, of Portsmouth, as a medical doctor, one of few serving the public throughout the 1855 Yellow Fever epidemic where reportedly, one in three persons died, served as mayor in 1856, first mayor when the city was incorporated in 1858, He entered military service with wife's brother-in-law, David Jeremiah Godwin, a twenty-five plus year law partner of James Francis Crocker, later to be in the 14th Virginia which in part from James F Crocker's 1909 paper (who also had served at Gettysburg ~ ~ three years later married Dr Hodges youngest sister).
Census: 1860, age 31 Portsmouth, Virginia with wife & one child, a physician, worth, $15,350 real estate & $14,300 personal, next listed is David Jeremiah Godwin
The United States authorities closed the doors of the navy yard during April 1861 and began the destruction of its buildings, its ships and stores. It was an act of war and was so regarded by all.
On morning of the April 21st, 1861, Col. Hodges, with Lt Col Godwin, under the order of Gen. William B. Taliaferro, entered the navy yard to take charge, to restore order and to protect what was left and to turn the yard over to the state of Virginia.
August 7th, 1861, Gen. John B Magruder ordered to Hodges' command two other infantry companies and two companies of cavalry, and directed him to proceed to Hampton and destroy the town. In his account of his expedition to his wife, says:
It grieved me sorely to have to destroy the town, but I believe it is all for the best, as it embarrasses the enemy very much and takes from them elegant winter quarters whilst our troops will have to suffer in log huts and tents. I went into many houses which formerly had been well taken care of; the furniture was broken to pieces and scattered all through the houses. They were filled with filth of every description, and most obscene expressions written all over the walls. If I had lived and owned a house there I would willingly have applied the torch to it rather than have had it desecrated in the way the whole town had been.
Then Col. James Gregory Hodges, of the 14th Virginia, of Armistead's brigade, 14th consisting of companies from Chesterfield, Amelia, Bedford, Fluvanna, Halifax, and Mecklenburg counties, organized in May 1861, entering Confederate service at Richmond on July 1, 1861, the Colonel fell instantly killed at the foot of the stone wall, of the Bloody Angle, and around and over his dead body there was literally a pile of his dead officers around him, including gallant Major Robert H Poore. On the occasion of the reunion of Pickett's Division at Gettysburg, 1887, General Hunt, chief of the Federal artillery at this battle, who had known Col Hodges before the war, pointed out to me [James F Crocker] where he saw him lying dead among his comrades. He led his regiment in this memorable charge with conspicuous courage and gallantry. He was an able and experienced officer. At the breaking out of the war he was Colonel of the Third Virginia Volunteers, and from 20th April, 1861, until he fell at Gettysburg he served with distinguished ability, zeal and gallantry his State and the Confederacy. He was with his regiment in every battle in which it was engaged in the war (the Battles of Southern (Seven?) Pines, Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, and Suffolk and in the charge of Pickett's Division which Armistead's Brigade was a part of at Gettysburg). He commanded the love and confidence of his men, and they cheerfully and fearlessly ever followed his lead. His memory deserves to be cherished and held in the highest esteem by his city, to which by his virtues, character and patriotic service he brought honor and consideration.
~ Gettysburg:
Armistead's Brigade- Brig. Gen. Lewis A. Armistead (mw/c), Col. William R. Aylett (w)
9th Virginia Infantry- Maj. John C. Owens (mw)
14th Virginia Infantry- Col. James G. Hodges (k), Lt. Col. William White
38th Virginia Infantry- Col. Edward C. Edmonds (k), Lt. Col. Powhatan B. Whittle (w)
53rd Virginia Infantry- Col. William R. Aylett (w), Lt. Col. Rawley W. Martin (w/c)
57th Virginia Infantry- Col. John Bowie Magruder (mw/c)
Death: in battle at Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania.
Burial: Specific site currently unknown. Report was in the field near where he fell. A government marker exists in Cedar Grove cemetery at Portsmouth and markers exist in Hollywood cemetery, Richmond, Virginia for unidentified bodies re-interred there from battle site of Gettysburg.
Father: Gen John Hodges b: 31 DEC 1786 Virginia.
Mother: Jane Adelaide Gregory b: 11 JAN 1794 North Carolina.
Marriage: Sarah A F Wilson b: 1830 Virginia.
Married: 2 AUG 1852 Norfolk, Virginia.
Known Children
William Wilson Hodges b: 29 APR 1854 Portsmouth, Virginia.
John Nelson Hodges b: 19 DEC 1860 Portsmouth, Virginia.
SOURCES reviewed and in part used above:
Southern Historical Society papers - Volume 37 - Page 184 -
Address By Judge JAMES F. CROCKER, Before Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans, Portsmouth, Va., June 18th, 1909.
http://www.gdg.org/Research/SHSP/shcrocke.html
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/hodges.htm
http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/oralhistory/tidewater/hooktranscript.html
http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/odu/vino00022.document
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A2001.05.0295%3Achapter%3D1.13
Transferred and revised November 2012
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