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Show 1842 1855 1862 J 0 H N H. M 0 R G A N ' S LIFE IN BRIEF JOHN HAMILTON MORGAN Born in Greensburg, Indiana, the son of Garrard Morgan III and his wife Sarah Henderson Morgan. In the spring of 1855, Garrard Morgan, III and his family moved westerly and located near the pioneer settlement of Mattoon in Coles County, lllinois. It was at Charleston, the county seat of Coles County that the Morgan family attended the Lincoln-Douglas Debate (one of the series) held on the 18th day of September,l858. At the age of twenty years, on the 6th day of September, 1862, he enlisted as a private in Company I, 123rd Regiment of lllinois Infantry. He served with distinction in the Union Army until the end of the Civil War. He was appointed a corporal of said company on August I, 1864 and as Color Sergeant on December 31, 1864 and was honorably discharged from service with his company on June 28, 1865 at Nashville, Tennessee. 1865 September Enrolled as a student in the Eastman Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, New York and on completion of the course he went to Murfreesboro, Tennessee to go into business with a young man, also an accountant, who had served with him in the Army during the Civil War. |
