CONFEDERATE BIOGRAPHY: JOHN R. MORRIS - Smith County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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TEXANS WHO WORE THE GRAY by Sid S. Johnson

JOHN R. MORRIS.

John Robertson Morris was born in Coosa county, Ala., June 7, 1842, 
and removed to Texas with his parents in Feb­ruary 1847, and settled 
in Rusk county.  Entered the Con­federate service in the company of 
Capt. Foscue in 1861, then in company B, 14th Texas dismounted cavalry, 
com­posing one of the requirements of Ector's Texas brigade in the Army 
of Northern Tennessee. Was with Bragg in the Kentucky raid, Murfresboro, 
with Joe Johnston in the Geor­gia campaign, and at Spanish Fort. During 
Hood's return from the fatal battle of Franklin and his retreat from 
Nashville, young Morris was  conspicous as a gallant soldier. Ector's 
brigade was a part of  the force of Gen. Pat. Cleburn's division, and  
he was with his command during the great struggles in which the 
contending forces made their regiments worthy of the cause for which 
they fought. He has been married twice, first Miss Martha A. Pinkerton, 
the second, Miss Ellen Ford. A gallant Confederate soldier, a prominent 
farmer and leading citizen of his county. He lives East of Tyler.