Morehead shared all the dangers of the men in his 106th Pennsylvania Infantry which went on to serve throughout the whole war. First at Ball's Bluff, then in the Peninsula Campaign where fought at Fair Oaks, Savage Station, Battle of Glendale or Charles City Cross Roads and Malvern Hill. Then he fought at Antietam and Fredericksburg. Although never wounded, Morehead was injured when his horse was shot from under him at Antietam: