Orange-Madison County NcArchives Obituaries.....Morrow, E. Graham June 19, 1863
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The Standard of Raleigh, Aug. 19, 1863
The Standard of Raleigh, Aug. 19, 1863
   CAPTAIN E. GRAHAM MORROW, of Chapel Hill, who was severely wounded and 
taken prisoner at Gettysbburg, died near that place upon Sunday, the 19th of 
July.
   He deserves more than the mere registration of his name as "dead", for he 
was a noble, modest, gallant and true young man. He was a son of Orange County 
in a peculiar sense, for he came of fathers, grandfathers, great grandfathers 
and ancestors even more remote, who had been an honor to the same soil before 
him. Educated at MR. BINGHAM'S school, and then at the University, he had 
subsequently pursued mathematical studies at Cambridge in Massachusetts. For a 
short time he was an instructor at his Alma Mater. It had been his purpose to 
become a civil engineer, but prolonged ill health delayed his entrance upon an 
active life.
   The opening of the war found him still at home. He entertained no sympathy 
with those who labored to destroy the American Union. In his opinion the red 
clouds which floated in that morning air portended a murky day. ... North 
Carolina having accepted a destiny which she had not been able to defeat, and 
ranged herself in a war already waging, MR. MORROW believed that his proper 
position would be in the field.
   ... After some time he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in the 28th 
regiment of North Carolina troops. The fall and winter of 1861 were spent near 
Wilmington. In May 1862, he commanded a detachment of his company in the 
hottest part of the engagement at Hanover, Va. He was likewise in command of 
the company on the four bloody days around Richmond. In December he commanded 
at Fredericksburg as Captain; and again in May, 1863, at Chancellorsville. On 
the last of the three days at Gettysburg, he received wounds in the right arm 
and thigh which proved fatal.
   A friend who watched his death bed in a letter to his Mother wrote:
   "He died about noon on Sunday last (19th inst.) at the hospital of the 2nd 
Army Corps (Federal) about three and a half miles nearly southeast of 
Gettysburg, Pa., from the effects of wounds received in battle on the 3rd 
inst. His body, enclosed in a plain, strong, coffin, I saw committed to the 
earth just as the shades of night began to gather. It was a calm, still Sunday 
evening, with a bright new moon in the west. On the right side of the coffin 
was placed the body of THOMAS W. HOWARD, who died a few hours after GRAHAM, 
and on the left side, the body of SMITH F. BARNES, Co. G, 27th N.C., who died 
nearly at the same time. HOWARD leaves relatives near you. CHEEK of Co. G, 
28th N.C., died on the 16th inst. His father lives in your village.
   He is buried in the field under a walnut tree on the farm of JACOB SWARTZ.
Many soldiers are buried in different parts of the same field. His head is not 
more than a yard from the foot of the tree, on the east side of the tree. The 
tree itself is the middle one of three, which stand nearly in a line north and 
south. JOSEPH WEIKER, who works with A. SPANGER, near the Express Office in 
Gettysburg can point out the place. Headboards also mark the spot."

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