The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1895-10-30
GENERAL THOS. ]. MORGAN'S VISIT.
He viii Lecture Tonight Before the
Baptist Association.
The Annual Session of tho Pacific As
ISOLATION VIII be Held Here
This Week.

The Pacific Baptist Association and
auxiliary organizations, embracing the
Baptist churches in Sacramento, Yolo,
Solano, Napa and Sonoma Counties,
will hold its annual meeting in the First
Baptist Church of this city this week
The meeting will begin this evening at
7:30 O'Clock and continue through the
week and next Sunday.
On Sunday morning services will be
held in all the Baptist churches in the
city, and in the evening all will unite
in the services at the First Baptist
Church.
The meetings of the association are
of special interest and significance, on
account of the presence of the Cen
eral Secretary of the American Bap-
fist Home Mission Society, Rev. T. j..
Morgan, D. D., of New York; and Rev.
H c. Woods, D. D., of Colorado, Super
| intendent of the Rocky Mountain Di-
vision of the Home Mission Society S
work
General Morgan's career in the civil
war and his Indian policy during
President Harrison's administration
| have made his name familiar and won
him hosts of friends all over the codn-
| try. He will lecture at s o'clock this
evening at the First Baptist Church on
Building the Nation" The lecture
| will be free, and affords splendid OPP
pOrtunity to our citizens to hear this
distinguished man, sketch of whose
| career is herewith given.
General Thomas J. Morgan was born
| in Franklin, Ind, August IL, 1859 He
| is of Welsh stock, the son Of Hon. and
Rev. Lewis Morgan, a pioneer settler OF
| Indiana, and one of the founders OF
Franklin College. After a preparatory
course of study in the common schools
he entered Franklin College, and was
| about completing the senior year at the
| outbreak of the war in April, 1861. At
the first call for troops he enlisted as a
| private soldier in the Seventh Indiana
Infantry, and served for ninety days in
| Western Virginia, participating in the
| battle of Carrick's Ford, one of the
| earliest engagements of the war. At
| the expiration of his term of service ne
| spent a year as principal of the public
schools in Atlanta, III.
| In August, 1862 in response to Linz
coins call for 100000 men, he re-en-
tered the service as First Lieutenant in
the Seventh Indiana Infantry, COM
manded by Colonel Benz. Harrison. The
| friendship formed at that time beween
these two men has never been broken
On the recommendation of General
Harrison and other officers, and after a
rigid examination, Lieutenant Morgan
received the appointment of Major, and
was authorized to recruit and organize
| the Fourteenth Regiment of United
! States Colored Infantry at Gallatin,
| Tenn. When the regiment was COM
pleted it was visited at Chattanooga by
| General Lorenzo Thomas, Adjutant-
|! General of the United States army, who
promoted it's commanding officer to the
rank of Colonel
Subsequently, under the orders OF
| General George II. Thomas, who fire.
! qGently visited his camp at Chatta-
nooga. Colonel Morgan organized two
additional regiments of negro troops,
| and then by special order of General
! Thomas he was put in command of the
| First COlOred Brigade of the Army Of
! the Cumberland.
During thirty days of Shernians IA
nous Atlanta campaign (May, 1861
| Colonel Morgan served as volunteer aid
on the staff of Maori General O. O.
| Howard then in command of the
! Fourth Army Corps, and participated
in numerous heavy engagements, hav-
ing his horse shot under him at
Adairsville. He received from General
! Howard the highest commentator for
energy and fearlessness in battle, and
| also the credit Of having saved the
army at Resaca. Returning to his own
| command he participated in the subse-
quent campaigns under Thomas, ending
in the great battle at Nashville, where
another horse was shot under him.
At Dalton, Ga, he assisted in routing
WheeIer's cavalry; at Pulaski. Tenn, he
aided in checking and turning back
Forests cavalry; at Decatur, Ala, at
the head of his troops he charged and
captured q battery from Hoods army,
and at Nashville, Tenn. December IA
and 10 1864, at p years of age, in COM
mand of two brigades, one of white
troops and one of colored, he opened the
great battle, and for two days bore a
conspicuous part in the crushing defeat
that Thomas visited upon Hoods army.
For gallantry and meritorious serv-
ices during the war he received the dis
tinctiOn of Brevet Brigadier-G
being one of the youngest men in the
service upon whom this honor was be-
slowed In August, 1860 after a serV-
ice of forty months in various grades,
he resigned his commission TO resume
his studies interrupted four years be-
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