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Show he won national recognition for heroism under fir eo {See War of the Rebellion, Volo 49, Part l, page 453, which reads as follows: nAll did their duty so deserve the highest praiseo Color Serg 1to John Morgan, Company I is deserving the highest credit for his galantry in action in being the first to plant a flag upon the Rebel works and for being in the extreme advance until all the rebel works were captured, planting our colors upon each of them successivelyo 11 ) Ofttimes, as he wrote, he recalled those terrible days of bloodshed and gave silent thanks to his Father in Heaven for the Gospel light which had come into his lifeo His writings, having been completed, he arose early on the 5th day of June, 1878, and walked to -Rome, Georgia, a distance of about twenty miles, arriving there about nocno He spent the day in search of a printing shop that would print his epistle at a price within his meanso After having lunch with one of his converts, Brother Henry Harker, he met with a printer by the name of Mosly who quoted ' him a fair price and to whom he gave the jobo It was then he decided to change the name of his writing from "epistle'' to tracttto On the following morning, Sunday, June 9, 187 8, he met with the Saints in Rome and organized the first L .. D. So Sunday School in the Southern States and appointed John Bo Daniels as Superintendent and Miss Joan Manwaring as Secretary .. During the following week, he spent his time in reading proofo On June 18th, the printing having been completed, he with the assistance of Miss Joan Manwaring, his Sunday School Secretary, started folding and placing backs on the printed tracts. -3- |
