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the flotilla on the Mississippi river up to April 25, 1862. After the capture of New Orleans he was ordered to Virginia and served in the batteries at Drewry's Bluff, Richmond, Va., until August, 1SC3, and on the ironclads at Charleston, S.C., un- til October, 1863. He invented a useful movable sub-marine channel obstruction for harbor de- fence; was assigned as aide to Com. Matthew F. Maury, and with him ran the blockade at Charles- ton, S.C, Oct. 9, 1863; joined the Confederate coinmmerce-destroyer Georgia off Ushant island, France, April 9, 1863; ran the blockade into Wil- mington, N.C., under heavy fire in the Lillian in July, 1864, and served in the naval batteries in front of Richmond, Va., until the fall of that city, when he accompanied the wife of President Davis in her flight south. He studied law in New Orlejins, La., 1865-66, and served in the Egyptian army as lieutenant-colonel, 1869-73, being recommended to the Khedive by Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee. He was U.S. diplo- matic consul-general to Australasia, 1885-88. He was elected a life member of the Royal Geograph- ical society of Australasia, and served as U.S. commissioner to the Melbourne International exhibition of 1888. He was married, Oct. 15, 1865, to Anna Helen, daughter of George A. Trenholm of Charleston, S.C, secretary of the C. S. treasury; secondly to Ella Burroughs, granddaughter of the Hon. William Ford De Saussure, chancellor of South Carolina; and thirdly to Frances Amelia, daughter of Judge Charles L. Fincke of New York city. He is the author of: The Confederacijs Only Foreign War; America's Egypt; The Reappearance of Eli Orinies, and other Short Stories. In 1902 he was residing in Woodmont, Conn.

MORGAN, John, surgeon-general, was born in Philadelphia, Pa., in 1735; son of Evan and Johanna (Byles) Morgan. He was graduated at the College of Philadelphia, A.B., 1757, A.M., 1760; studied medicine, and served as a surgeon and lieutenant in the French and Indian war. He completed his medical studies under Dr. Will- iam Hunter in London and at the University of Edinburgh, receiving his M.D. degree in 1763; studied in Paris in 1764, visited Holland and Italy, and returned to London, where he was licensed by the College of Physicians in 1765. He returned to Philadelphia in 1765, )v Iped to found the medical school connected with the College of Philadelphia, and was professor of the theory and practice of medicine there, 1765-79. In 1773 he made a voyage to Jamaica, W.I., at his own exp9nse, to solicit benefactions for the advancement of general literature in the college. He was physician to the Pennsylvania hospital, 1773-83; was appointed by congress, Oct. 17, 1775, director-general and physician-in-chief to the

general hospital of the American army, and as such joined Washington's army at Cambridge, Mass. While the army was in New York it suf- fered great loss through sickness, and Dr. Mor- gan's enemies charging him with responsibility, congress dismissed him from the service. It was afterward shown to have been no fault of his, but entirely due to the want of money to procure proper drugs. He was given immediate oppor- tunity to defend himself, and a committee of congress appointed at his request reported on June 12, 1779, and completely vindicated him. Washington, in a personal letter, said; " No fault, I believe, was or ever could be found with the economy of the hospitals during your direct- orship." He was elected fellow of the Royal Society of London, 1763, member, 1764; member of the Royal Academy of Surgery of Paris, 1764; of the Arcadian Belles-Lettres society of Rome, 1764; of the American Philosophical society, which he helped to found, 1769, and honorary member of the Massachasetts Medical society. He was married to Mary, daughter of Thomas, and .sister of Francis Hopkinson, the signer. He contributed to the transactions of the American Philosophical .society, and published: Suppura- tion ( 1764); The Art of Making Anatomical Prep- arations by Corrosion (1764); A Discourse upon the Introduction of Medical Schools in Philadel- phia (1765); Four Dissertations on the Reciprocal Advantages of a Perpetiud Union between Great Britain and Her American Colonies (1766), for which he received a gold medal from John Sar- geant of London; A Recommendation of Quocula- tion according to Baron Dimsdale's Method {lllQ); and ^4 Vindication of His Public Character in the Station of Director General of the Military Hos- pitals (1777). He died in Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 15, 1789.

MORGAN, John Hunt, soldier, was born in Huntsville, Ala., June 1, 1836; son of Calvin C. and Henrietta (Hunt) Morgan, and grandson of John W. Hunt of Lexington, Ky. His parents removed to Lexington, Ky., in 1830, where he was brought up on a farm. He was elected Ist lieu- tenant in Colonel Marshall's regiment of cavalry, serving in Mexico for eighteen months, taking part in the battle of Buena Vista, and engaged in man- ufacturing bagging in Lexington, Ky., 1847-61. He entered the Confederate army in September, 1861, as captain of Kentucky volunteers, having been prevented from doing so earlier by the illness and death of his wife, who was Rel>eoca, sister of Col. Sanders D. Bruce (1835-1903). founder of the Turf, Field and Farin, New York city. He was married secondly, in 1863. to a daughter of the Hon. Charles Ready of Murfreesboro, Tenn. He joined Gen. Simon B. Buckner at the head of the Lexington Rifles; was commissioned colonel to