Asa Rogers (1802 – 1887) was an Virginia farmer, merchant, politician and Confederate officer from Middleburg. Loudoun County, Virginia. Career Born at Stone Hill plantation about a mile east of the county seat to Hugh Rogers and his wife, the former Mary Coombs, he was one of eleven children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. Rogers graduated from the University of Virginia and became a lawyer and merchant, as well as operated his own plantations. He also served as a legislator and on the vestry of Emmanuel Episcopal Church in Middleburg. Middleburg had prospered from its location on a major wagon route from Alexandria, Virginia and Washington, D.C. westward into Winchester, Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley (later U.S. Route 50) as well as its proximity to a major north-south route through Virginia's Piedmont region and northward into Maryland (later U.S. Route 15). In 1836, the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad was completed, and by the 1840s, the wagon route trade had diminished significantly, to the detriment of merchants such as Asa Rogers, who owned a store at Madison and Washington Streets (which remains today as a contributing property to the Middleburg Historic District). When Virginia seceded from the Union on April 10, 1861 as the American Civil War began, Rogers and his brother Hamilton Rogers enlisted in the local militia, as did four sons of each man. Asa Rogers Sr. was commissioned as a Brigadier General on April 27, his brother Hamilton as a Colonel, and Asa's son Arthur Lee Rogers was commissioned as a Major in the Artillery. All 115 of Middleburg's eligible voters unanimously to secede from the Union. Asa Rogers Senior was captured twice (on February 24, 1862 and July 16, 1862) and exchanged each time. His son Arthur (1831-1871) was sent home as disabled, where he designed a flag for the Confederate States of America which incorporated the Confederate Battle Flag. Mosby's Rangers were formed at Hamilton Rogers' Oakham Farm in December 1862, and several cavalry battles were fought around the area in July 1863, after the Battle of the Wilderness to the south, and both before and after the Battle of Gettysburg further up Route 15 in Pennsylvania. General U.S. Grant in December 1864 authorized a burning raid around Middleburg in retaliation for the damage Mosby's Rangers continued to inflict behind Union lines despite the Confederate Army's decisive loss at the Third Battle of Winchester in