Thomas Egenton Hogg
Military Person
1828 – 1898
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Who was Thomas Egenton Hogg?
Thomas Egenton Hogg was a master in the Confederate States Navy who participated in raids on Union ships during the American Civil War. He was captured and sentenced to death, but was eventually released from prison, after which he became a businessman and railroad promoter in the U.S. state of Oregon. He worked to build the Oregon Pacific Railroad, though his dream to create a transcontinental railroad with its western terminus on the Oregon Coast was never realized.
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- Born
- 1828
Baltimore - Nationality
- United States of America
- Confederate States of America
- Died
- Dec 8, 1898
Philadelphia
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on July 23, 2013
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