Biography of John T. Morgan, Dallas, Alabama

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JOHN T. MORGAN, UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM ALABAMA

     John T. Morgan, who, in the Civil War, was a conspicuous officer in the 
     Confederate army, was born at Athens, Tenn., June 20, 1824.  When nine 
     years of age the family emigrated to Alabama, and he has since resided 
     in that State.  After he had obtained an academic education he studied law, was 
     admitted to the Bar in 1845, and was in successful practice at Selma, Alabama, 
     when he was elected a United States Senator.  In 1860 Mr. Morgan was a Presidential 
     Elector.  A year later he was a Delegate from Dallas County to the State Convention 
     which passed the ordinance of secession; and in May, 1861, he donned the gray and 
     went to the War with "Company I, Catawba Rifles."  When the company was assigned to 
     the Fifth Alabama regiment Morgan was appointed Major, and not long after 
     Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment.  The next year he received the commission of 
     Colonel, and raised for the service the Fifty-first Alabama regiment.  In 1863 Colonel 
     Morgan was promoted to the rank of Brigadier-General, commanded a brigade in Virginia, 
     and soon after resigned, to lead his old regiment, whose Colonel had fallen bravely while 
     in command.  A few months afterwards he was again commissioned a Brigadier-General.
     At the close of the conflict he returned to his home at Selma.  In 1876 he was elected 
     United States Senator, entering upon his duties March 05, 1877.

Ref:  Headley, P. C., PUBLIC MEN OF TO-DAY, 1882, S. S. Scranton & Company, Harford, p. 229.