I apologize for the delay in responding. I am on the road to Akron (my hometown) for a family get together, and then to West Virginia, including Spencer. I will respond to your wonderful postings one at a time.

Eli Rogers was likely wounded at the Battle of Rutherford?s Farm (July 20, 1864) just outside of Winchester, Virginia, where the WV 9th Infantry participated under the command of Major Benjamin M. Skinner and ultimately General William Averell. The 2007 book, Shenandoah Summer: The 1864 Valley Campaign, by Scott C. Patcham (University of Nebraska Press) has a chapter devoted to this battle.

I hope to make contact with Terry Cummings, who is the Commander of Capt. John White Spencer Camp No. 9 of Spencer of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War
[Terrence Cummings, 2833 Egypt Ridge Road, Spencer WV 25276]. I have tried to reach Mr. Cummings unsuccessfully. He wrote an amazing article in 2002 about Capt. Spencer in the local Spencer newspaper:

http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1035&dat=20020418&id=LFEMAAAAIBAJ&sjid=z2MDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6375,258369

I am wondering if anyone knows how I might reach Mr. Cummings?

Thanks so much, Tom Vetter