William H. Morgan

In 1860 he was a 38 year old farmer at Montevallo in Shelby County, AL. Giving his occupation as shoemaker, he enlisted there on 26 March 1862 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company D, 44th Alabama Infantry.

He was severely wounded in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was furloughed home on 1 October but did not soon return, and was reduced in rank to Private on 1 May 1863. He may have returned periodically - and may have been in action again in May and June 1864. He was listed as a deserter on 13 August 1864 at Chaffin's Farm, VA and was captured by Federal troops as a "rebel deserter." He was at Knoxville, TN on 4 October 1864, took an oath of allegiance, there on the 5th, and was sent to Chattanooga, TN on 8 October 1864. He then received a pass to go to Jeffersonville, IN with no later military record.

By 1870 he was a shoemaker at Shubuta in Clarke County, MS, and he had his own boot & shoe shop there in 1880. He probably died after 1880 in Clarke County, MS.

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1880.

He married Martha Ann Clarey (1836-bef 1880) in December 1852 and they had a son Jacob. He probably remarried by 1880, Mary Fletcher (c. 1839-).

c. 1824 in VA

Date not known; Clarke County, MS