MORGAN
MORGAN
by overpowering numbers, and retreated to
Crown Point, N.Y., where on July 8, 1776, Major
Morgan drew up an address of the field oflBcers to
Gen. John Sullivan on the latter's withdrawing
from the command of the army of Canada. He
served in the army until Aug. 29, 1778, when he
was appointed brigade major for Hampden
county, Mass. He was commissioned justice of
tlie peace of Massachusetts by General Hancock
in 1781 ; was chairman of the committee for
taking up persons dangerous to the common-
wealth in 1782 ; served as selectman of Brimfield
for twenty -two years, and was the assessor for
Hampden district to collect direct the U.S. tax
levied on the state by congress in 1798. He
represented Brimfield in the Massachusetts legis-
lature, 1798-1801. He received from the govern-
ment a pension and a bounty of 20,000 acres in
Livingston county, N.Y., on the banks of the
Genesee river. He was married March 31, 1796,
to Persis, daughter of David and Tabitha
(Collins) Morgan, and in 1826 removed to Lima,
N.Y., and from there to Avon, N.Y., where he
died Nov. 7, 1837.
MORGAN, Charles, shipping merchant, was born in Killingworth, Conn., April 21, 1795 ; son of Col. George and Elizabeth (Redfield) Morgan ; grandson of Theophilus and Phebe (Merrills) Morgan, and of Capt. Samuel Redfield, and a descendant of James Morgan, who came from Wales to Boston, Mass., with his brothers John and Miles, in April, 1636 ; settled previous to 1040 in Roxburgh, where he married Margery Hill, and in 1650 removed to New London, Conn. Charles Morgan became a clerk in a grocery store in New York city, and about 1816 opened a small store in Peck Slip, for the sale of ship supplies. Later he enlarged his business by importing southern fruit ; became part owner of a brig, and a few years later sole owner of a line of sailing vessels in the West India trade. He started the first steamer between New York and Charleston, S.C., which became the Morgan line ; he built the steamships William Oibbons, Columbia, and New York, and in 1836 sent the first steamer from New Orleans to Mexico, and established in New Orleans the Morgan lines to various Texan and other ports along the Gulf of Mexico. He estab- lished in 1836 the Morgan Iron works, on the East River, New York, for building marine en- gines, and during the civil war the greater part of his fleet was chartered by the U.S. govern- ment. He owned and directed the Louisiana and Texas railroad, building the road from Indianola La.,toCuero, Tex. ; dredged a steamboat channel through Atchafalaya bay ; built a wharf 2,500 feet long at Indianola, and tlms perfected this line of travel. He also built steamers for the California trade, used on the Panama and
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Nicaragua routes, and continued to manage his
many large enterprises until his death. He gave
$50,000 for the endowment of the Morgan school
at Clinton, Conn., which was dedicated Dec. 7,
1871, and Morgan City, La., was named in his
honor. He married, first, Dec. 20, 1817, Emily
Reeves, and secondly, June 24, 1852, Mary J.
Sexton. He died in New York city, May 8, 1878.
MORGAN, Charles Hale, soldier, was born in
Manlius, N.Y., Nov. 6, 1834. He was graduated
at the U.S. Military academy, 1857, and was pro-
moted 2d lieutenant, 4th artillery, Sept. 10, 1857.
He served on the Utah expedition, 1857-59 ; was
promoted 1st lieuten-
ant April 1, 1861 ;
served in western
Virginia and in the
defenses of Washing-
ton, D.C., 1861-62,
and in the Army of
the Potomac, March
to August, 1862. He
was promoted cap-
tain, Aug. 5, 1862:
took part in the
Maryland campaign ;
was chief of artillery,
2d corps. Army of the
Potomac, 1862-63 ;
assistant inspector-
general and chief of staff, 2d army corps, 1868-64,
and 1st veteran corps, 1865. He took part in the
Rappahannock campaign ; the battles of Gettys-
burg and Warrenton, and was brevetted major,
July 3, 1863, for Gettysburg. He engaged in the
skirmishes at Auburn and Bristol Station, and
in the operations at Mine Run ; was brevetted
lieutenant-colonel, Oct. 14, 1863 ; took part in the
battles of the Wilderness, the skirmisli at Todd's
Tavern, the battles of Spottsylvania, North Anna,
Tolopotomy, Cold Harbor and vicinity, Peters-
burg, Deep Bottom, Reams's Station. Boydton
Plank Road, and the siege of Petersburg, 1864 ;
and was brevetted colonel, May 12, 1864, for
Spottsylvania, and colonel of U.S. volunteers,
Aug. 1, 1864, " for distinguished and valuable
services and gallantry during the campaign,
especially at the Wilderness and Spottsylvania."
He assisted in organizing the 1st army corps of
veterans at Washington, D.C., 1864-65; was
brevetted brigadier-general of volunteers, Dec. 2,
1864, for services in the campaign of Richmond,
Va. ; was assistant inspector-general and chief
of staff to Major-General Halleck, commanding
the middle military division, February to June»
1865; and a member of the examining boards
June to August, 1865. He was brevetted briga-
dier-general, U.S.A., March 13, 1865, for services
in the field during the war ; was promoted briga-
