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Woodward's Oak Grove Rangers

I am hoping someone can help clarify a big confusion I've ran into with my research. I found a website on Christian Co. KY Confederates (http://www.westernkyhistory.org/christian/military/confed.html) which listed about 34 men of the Oak Grove Rangers who were said to be from Christian County. The confusion begins in that there are a few of the men who are also listed as veterans from Trigg County (such as Harvey Sanders and Hazard Baker who were among Jefferson Davis' bodyguard detail.) I am researching a relative of mine trying to find proof of his possible Confederate service. He is a distant cousin on my father's side, by the name of Drury Franklin Rogers. I have service records for a D.F. Rogers from the state archives one showing him in Helm's 1st KY Cavalry and later serving in the 3rd KY Mounted Infantry Co. C and also shows up on POW records captured with the 3rd at Elizabethtown and sent to Camp Chase December of 1864. His discharge from Helm's Cavalry lists this D.F. Rogers as born in Christian Co. and I am unable to make out the place of enlistment due to the quality of the writing and the condition of the copy I was sent. Since there is a Frank Rogers listed as a member of the Oak Grove Rangers I am trying to find out if this is the same man I have records on. I am still unclear as to wether this is the same Drury Frank Rogers that I am related to since he was born in Rutherford Co., TN, raised in Trigg Co. and would have been at least 2 years younger than the age of 22 listed on the service records for D.F. There is, however, a Drury Frank Rogers listed as a veteran from Trigg County on their County history site (http://www.westernkyhistory.org/trigg/biv.html) serving in the 3rd KY Mounted Infantry Co. C. According to an abbreviated list of WPA Veteran Grave Registrations in Trigg Co. there is a Frank Rogers Civil War veteran buried in an unmarked grave at the old Trigg Furnace Cemetary. (This just so happens to be where my Great grandparents and great-great grandparents who where also Rogers are buried.) I am completely confused with all of this! Maybe someone has some kind of information that might help me prove or disprove that my Drury Frank Rogers is the same as the D.F. Rogers that served in Helm's and the 3rd KY and is the same Frank Rogers listed as one of the Oak Grove Rangers or who's grave is listed with the WPA. Any help would be greatly appreciated since I seem to have hit a brick wall with my research.

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