John Morgan

In 1860 he was an unmarried 18 year old student living with his parents and 4 siblings on their plantation at Prairie Bluff in Wilcox County, AL; the Champions and Sheffields near neighbors. He enlisted in Bridgeport, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A of the 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was with his company in Maryland and was captured at Middletown, MD on 13 September 1862.

He was paroled at Keedysville, MD on 20 September and held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, when he was sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862 and served afterward with his company in all their engagements to the end of the war. He was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was a farmer at Bethel/Peach Tree in Wilcox County, AL.

His service from his Confederate Compiled Service Records1 online from fold3, and the Alabama Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Elizabeth Ann "Annie" Champion (1845-1878) in January 1866 and they had 4 children. He married again, Annie Bell Sheffield (1861-1950) in August 1879 and they had 6 more.

11/17/1842 in AL

03/20/1905; Thomaston, AL; burial in Thomaston Cemetery, Thomaston, AL