|--------Lewis MORGAN (1727, Pennsylvania - 1814, Kentucky)
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|---------Adonijah MORGAN (1755, VA - 1827, Indiana)
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| |--------Christine Ann WHITE (1726, Pennsylvania - 1816, Kentucky)
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|------Lewis MORGAN (1788, Tennessee - 1852, Iowa)
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| |---------Isabelle Jean MCMAHON (1765, Scotland - 1829, Indiana)
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After a
preparatory course of study in the common schools, he entered Franklin
College, and was about completing the senior year at the outbreak of
the war, in April, 1861. At the first call for troops, he enlisted as
a private in the Seventh Indiana Infantry, and served for ninety days
in Western Virginia, participating in the battle of Carrick's Ford. At
the expiration of his term of Service he spent a year as principal of
the public schools in Atlanta, Ill. In August, 1862, in response to
Lincoln's call for 300,000 men, he re-entered the service as first
lieutenant in the 70th Indiana Infantry, Col. Benjamin Harrison. The
friendship formed at that time between these two men has never been
broken. He was made major, and authorized to recruit the Fourteenth
Regiment of U.S. Colored Infantry. He was promoted to the rank of
colonel. Subsequently Gen. Geo. H. Thomas directed him to organize and
command the Forty-Second and Forty-fourth U.S.C.I., two additional
regiments of negro troops, and the First Colored Brigade of the Army
of the Cumberland.
During thirty days of Sherman's Atlanta campaign, May, 1864,he served
as volunteer aid on the staff of Major-General O.O. Howard, then in
command of the Fourth Army Corps, and participated in numerous heavy
engagements, receiving from General Howard commendation for energy and
``fearlessness in battle,'' and the credit of having ``saved the army
at Resaca.'' Returning to his own command, he participated in the
subsequent campaigns under Thomas. At Dalton, Ga., he assisted in
routing Wheeler's cavalry; at Pulaski, Tenn., he aided in checking and
turning back Forrest's cavalry; at Decatur, Ala., at the head of his
troops, he charged and captured a battery from Hood's army; and at
Nashville, Tenn., December 14 and 13, 1864; at twenty-five years of
age, in command of two brigades, one of white troops and one of
colored troops, he opened the great battle, and for two days bore a
conspicuous part in the crushing defeat that Thomas visited upon
Hood's army. One horse was shot under him at Adairsville, Ga., a
second at Nashville. For gallantry and meritorious services during
the war, he received the distinction of brevet Brigadier-General,
being one of the youngest men in the service upon whom this honor was
bestowed. In August, 1865, after a service of forty months, he
resigned, and entered Rochester, NY, Theological Seminary, from which
he graduated in 1868. He studied at the University of Leipsic,
Germany. A.B. 1861; A.M. 1864; LL. D., 1884; Chicago University, D.D.
in 1874; seven years professor of Homiletics and Church History in
Theological Seminary at Chicago; was principal of the Normal School at
Providence, R.I. Has published ``Studies in Pedagogy,'' ``Patriotic
Citizenship'' (NY, 1875). He was US Commissioner of Indian Affairs,
1891; Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Missionary
Society.
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