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D. Morris
(1817 - 1894)
Home State: Connecticut
Education: Union College, Class of 1838
Command Billet: Brigade Commander
Branch of Service: Infantry
Unit: 2nd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Corps
see his Battle Report
Before Antietam
He was admitted to the bar in 1841, practiced law in Bridgeport, and was a member of the Connecticut Legislature (1845-61). He was a probate judge there after 1852. In 1860 he was a 42 year old lawyer in Bridgeport, CT. He was commissioned Colonel on 23 May 1862 and mustered into Federal service with the 14th Connecticut Infantry on 22 August 1862.
On the Campaign
He was the senior Colonel and commanded the Brigade in Maryland. They were part of the Federal assault on the Confederate positions in the Sunken Road and Roulette Farm midday at Antietam on 17 September 1862.
The rest of the War
He was honorably discharged for disability on 14 August 1863.
After the War
He was US Consul to France (1866-1869) and a wealthy "retired lawyer" in Fairfield, CT by 1870, but served as Connecticut Secretary of State (1877-1879) and was practicing law again in Bridgeport, CT in 1880.
More on the Web
Service information from the 14th Connecticut Regimental1 source also of his picture, and from the Record.2 Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1880, and the back of his tombstone; he was probably born Timothy Dwight Morris, but seems always to have gone by Dwight. His gravesite is on Findagrave.
He married Frances S. T. (?, -1858). He married again, Grace Josephine Clark (c. 1843-1884) and they had a son Robert Clark Morris (1869-1938).
Birth
11/22/1817; Litchfield County, CT
Death
09/26/1894; Bridgeport, CT; burial in Mountain Grove Cemetery and Mausoleum, Bridgeport, CT
1 Page, Charles D., History of the Fourteenth Regiment, Connecticut Vol. Infantry, Meriden (CT): The Horton Printing Co., 1906, frontpiece [AotW citation 938]
2 State of Connecticut, Adjutant General's Office, and AGs Smith, Camp, and Barbour, and AAG White, Record of Service of Connecticut Men in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, Hartford: Press of the Case, Lockwood, and Brainard Company, 1889, pg. 552 [AotW citation 29414]