John Roseberry, 24/26 year old Farmer, resident of Roanoke, Mo., born in Howard County, Missouri, Private, Company H, 6th Regiment Missouri Infantry*, enlisted March 23, 1862 at Van Buren, Arkansas by Col. J. B. Clark for 3 years or the war, elected 1st Lieutenant May 15, 1862, killed in the trenches at Vicksburg, Miss. July 1, 1863
Remarks: Served in M. S. G. 1st Lt., Co. D, 2nd Inft., 3rd Div. Engaged Drywood, Lexington, Elk Horn, wounded in shoulder severely. Iuka, Corinth, Grand Gulf, Port Gibson, Baker's Creek, Big Black [River], Vicksburg, Buried alive by explosion of mine under fort. Gotten out but too late to save alive.
* This company formerly served as Company F, 3rd Battalion Missouri Infantry; it became Company H, 6th Regiment Missouri Infantry, about August 23, 1862,
M322; Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers Who Served in Organizations from the State of Missouri
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"About 1430 on 1 July, Major Lockwood decided to make an inspection of the countermine and emerged a few minutes before 1500, reporting that all was going well. The countermine party was still feverisly at work at 1500 when the whold north face of the redan disintegrated in a spectacular explosion. Everybody working in the tunnel was killed. Falling debris buried alive some of the infantrymen in the new riflepits; others were hurled into the ravine to the west. When the casualties were counted up, 3 LA had 1 dead and 212 injured, the Appeal Artillery had 4 men injured, and 6 MO had 2 officers and several enlisted men killed, with many more injured. The survivors scrambled hastily back to their places, expecting another Federal attack, but it never came.[36]"
Ninety-Eight Day, A Geographer's View of the Vicksburg Campaign, Warren E. Brabau, U. of Tenn. Press, 2000, p. 437)
[36] OR, ser. I, vol. 24,pt. 2, pp. 377, 416
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O.R.-- SERIES I--VOLUME XXIV/2 [S# 37], p. 377
MAY 19-JULY 4, 1863.--The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss.
No. 85.--Reports of Brig. Gen. Louis Hébert, C. S. Army, commanding Brigade.
. . . . .From June 25 to July 1, he pressed forward his works and continued his telling fire on our line. On this last day, at about 1.30 p.m., he sprang his second mine under the main redan, on the left of the Jackson road. He, however, made no attempt to storm the breach, to the disappointment of our brave soldiers, who, though for a moment stunned by the fearful shock they sustained, were instantly ready to meet the foe and once more teach him that he could not take our works by assault.
The mine was a very heavy one. The entire left face, part of the right, and the entire terre-plein of the redan were blown up, leaving an immense deep chasm. Our interior works were materially injured. One sapper and 8 negroes, of the engineer department, occupied at countermining, were buried and lost, and the Third Louisiana lost 1 killed and 21 wounded and the Appeal Battery 4 wounded by the explosion. The loss of the Sixth Missouri by the mine I cannot state. It must have been serious.
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MAY 19-JULY 4, 1863.--The Siege of Vicksburg, Miss. p. 416
No. 92.--Report of Col. Francis M. Cockrell, Second Missouri Infantry, commanding First Brigade.
On the evening of July 1, the enemy exploded a mine, charged with at least 2,000 pounds of powder, the crater making a fearful breach through a portion of the redan, burying Lieutenant [John T.] Crenshaw and killing Lieutenant [John] Roseberry and several privates of the Sixth Missouri Infantry, some of whom were blown high up into the air and buried in the wreck. Eight negroes and the overseer in charge, working a counter-mine, were also killed. A large number of the Sixth Missouri Infantry were blown up and thrown over the brow of the hill, and quite a number severely wounded. Simultaneously with the explosion, the enemy opened a terrific fire at short range from two 8-inch columbiads, two 30-pounder Parrott guns, and one 12.pounder howitzer, and a mortar throwing 12-pounder shell (afterward ascertained to be a wooden mortar), concentrating their whole fire on this one point. This mortar did us great damage, having exact range of our position and throwing shells heavily charged with powder. The force of this terrific explosion threw the officers and men of the Sixth Missouri Infantry and a portion of the Third Louisiana Infantry back from the works over the brow of the hill, knocking off their hats and their guns out of their hands, bruising and wounding quite a number; but notwithstanding this, these gallant soldiers rallied, seized the nearest gun, and rushed back to the works. The veterans of the Third Louisiana Infantry raised a cheer, which was quickly taken up by our troops. Immediately after the explosion, I ordered up the Second Missouri Infantry, under Lieutenant-Colonel Senteny, to this point, and about 6 p.m. relieved the Sixth Missouri Infantry with the Second Missouri. The fire from the enemy's batteries was kept up till after dark, and from the mortar during the entire night.
This day the Sixth Missouri Infantry lost 8 killed and 48 wounded, and the Second Missouri Infantry lost 3 killed and 35 wounded; many severely who afterward died.
Among the killed of to-day is numbered one of the best officers in the Missouri army--Lieut. Col. Pembroke S. Senteny, of the Second Missouri Infantry--brave, cool, and generous----a model soldier and officer; and also Lieutenants Crenshaw and Roseberry, of the Sixth Missouri Infantry
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1860 United States Federal Census about John Roseberry
Name: John Roseberry
Age in 1860: 24
Birth Year: abt 1836
Birthplace: Missouri
Home in 1860: Prairie, Howard, Missouri
Gender: Male
Post Office: Roanoke
Household Members:
Name Age
Wm Roseberry 28 Farmer born in Indiana
John Roseberry 24 Farmer
Sarah E Roseberry 18 Dom.? [Domestic?] born in Mo.
Martha Roseberry 16 " -do-
Lametetion Roseberry 13 born in Mo.
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