Sion Rogers

Sion Hart Rogers (September 30, 1825 – August 14, 1874) was a U.S. Congressman from and Attorney General of North Carolina. Born near Raleigh, Rogers was admitted to the bar in 1848 and commenced practice in Raleigh. As a Whig, he served one term in Congress (1853-1855). During the American Civil War, he served in the Confederate States Army as a lieutenant in the Fourteenth Regiment of North Carolina State Troops in 1861; was commissioned colonel of the 47th North Carolina Infantry April 8, 1862, and resigned January 5, 1863, upon being elected attorney general of the State of North Carolina. He again served in United States Congress from 1871-1873, this time as a Democrat, and died only two years after failing to win reelection.

Sion Rogers in The Guns of the South
Sion Rogers was the head of the Joint Committee on Arrangements in the Confederate House of Representatives. He was in charge of personally escorting the Lees, Browns, and other most important participants, through the inaugural ceremonies of March 4, 1868. His duties were brutally interrupted by the Richmond Massacre, during which he was wounded.