John W. GroggVeteran

Ordnance Sergeant John W. Grogg was born in Hampstead, Maryland on September 23, 1839. A blacksmith by trade, he married Julia A. Stansbury Grogg on July 21, 1862, just prior to enlisting in the Union Army. He enlisted

on August 11, 1862 at Camp Hoffman in Baltimore, Maryland and served in Company A of the Sixth Maryland Infantry Regiment. Listed as missing in action at Berryville/Winchester, Virginia on June 15, 1863, he was captured by Confederate forces and taken to City Point, Virginia, where he was held until being paroled on July 23, 1863. Returned to Camp Parole, Maryland, he was listed as present with his unit by November 1863. Wounded on May 5, 1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness, he died on July 11, 1864 in Emory General Hospital in Washington, D.C. of the gunshot wound. Originally buried in the Soldiers' Home Cemetery in Washington, he was later re-interred in Historic Westminster Cemetery.