[3] At the start of the Spanish–American War, Rogers volunteered for Army service and was commissioned as a major in the Pay Department on May 2, 1898.

[1] In February 1904, Rogers was transferred to the Department of Dakota in Saint Paul, Minnesota as chief paymaster.

[1] As quartermaster of the Southern Department, Rogers was responsible for supplying forces deployed during the United States occupation of Veracruz.

[1] The Pancho Villa expedition was also the first time the Army used motor vehicles on a large scale, and Rogers was responsible for purchasing fleets of cars and trucks.

[1] Among his innovations were field bakeries that assured constant supplies of bread, the largest ice making plant under one roof in the world, a system of storing and distributing gasoline, creation of the Motor Transport Corps and Graves Registration Service, establishment of laundry and bathing facilities, and a salvage service.

General Rogers has organized, perfected, and administered with great efficiency the Quartermaster Department in France.

He was able to meet each emergency in times fraught with untold difficulties, and by his energy and untiring zeal he has insured to our troops a prompt and constant supply of quartermaster stores, without which the ultimate success of our Army could not have been obtained.

[1] Rogers believed this division to be the source of unnecessary expenses and bureaucracy, and worked to get these functions returned to the Quartermaster Corps.

[1] When reorganization of the Army resulted from passage of the National Defense Act of 1920, the Quartermaster Corps reclaimed control of transportation and construction, but the Finance Department remained a separate branch.

[3] Harry Lovejoy Rogers Jr. was a United States Military Academy graduate who attained the rank of colonel during World War II.

[8] The boat was used by the Quartermaster Corps until the early 1960s, when it was transferred to the Department of the Interior and then the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.