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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-