HANSON, Weightman 'Old Flintlock

HANSON, Weightman 'Old Flintlock

HANSON, Weightman 'Old Flintlock' , Roger - Brigadier General
Commander of the 1st Kentucky Orphan Brigade - CSA

Born August 27, 1827 at Winchester, Clark County KY.
Occ: Lawyer.
Served two terms in the Kentucky Legislature - 1853 and 1855.
Colonel - Kentucky State Guard, 1860.
Colonel - 2nd Kentucky Infantry Regiment (2nd,4th,5th,6th and 9th).
Participated in the Hartsville Expedition,TN, in 1862.
Elected Brigadier- General - 13 Dec. 1862
Captured at Fort Donelson, 1862.
POW - Fort Delaware,Delaware
Mortally wounded January 2, 1863 Stone's River/ Murfreesboro.
Died January 4, 1863 at house near the battlefield.
Buried in Lexington, KY.

"The Surviving members of the Orphan Brigade erect this stone in memory of their Commander and his devoted wife. Let this monument witness now, and to coming generation, our knowlege of his worth, our sense of his valor, our pride in his patriotism, and our profound conviction that he fell in the defense of a righteous cause"

The General was decendant of Swedish immigrants.

Brigadier General Roger Weightman Hanson was mortally wounded on 2
January 1863, dying at Murfreesboro, Tennessee, on 4 January 1863. He was killed in the bloody charge of Breckinridge's Kentucky "Orphan Brigade"  across Stones River (actually, Breckinridge had been promoted to Major-General and the Orphan Brigade was in his division, but it was Gen.  Hanson who commanded the Orphan Brigade at Stones River). General Hanson is buried in City Cemetery in Lexington. Section -G  Lot: 26  Part: E