Henry Lee Morey Henry Lee Morey ( April 8 , 1841 – December 29 , 1902 ) was an officer in the United States Army during the American Civil War and a politician and U . S . Congressman after the war . Early life and career . Henry L . Morey was born in Milford Township near Collinsville , Butler County , Ohio . He was a son of William and Derexa ( Whitcomb ) Morey , and the great - grandson of Revolutionary War officer Silas Morey and grandson of Revolutionary soldier Anthony Whitcomb . William Morey in his early life was a hatter and to buy furs he occasionally visited New Orleans , where he witnessed the workings of slavery . He abhorred what he saw and became a radical abolitionist . Returning to Ohio he opened his home as part of the underground railroad , and was well known as a friend of the black man . Henry received his education in the local public schools and the Morning Sun Academy at the village of Rising Sun . He then entered Miami University at Oxford , Ohio . Civil War . On the day after the fall of Fort Sumter , Morey left the university and enlisted as a member of the University Rifles , a military organization attached to the 20th Ohio Infantry , serving an enlistment of three months in West Virginia under General Robert C . Schenck . Morey then enlisted in the 75th Ohio Volunteer Infantry for a term of three years , and served under Generals Franz Sigel in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia , John Pope and Edward Hatch in Florida and Quincy A . Gillmore at the siege of Charleston . He was successively promoted corporal , sergeant , second lieutenant , first lieutenant , and captain . Three of his brothers , Oliver P . , Joseph W . , and James E . Morey , also served in the Union Army . He took part in the engagement at Monterey . He commanded his company in engagements at Franklin , Battle of McDowell and Shaw ' s Ridge , Strasburg , Battle of Cross Keys , Battle of Cedar Mountain , Battle of Rappahannock Station I ( Freeman ' s Ford , Sulphur Springs , and Waterloo Bridge ) , Second Battle of Bull Run , Battle of Aldie and Battle of Chancellorsville in Virginia . He was taken prisoner at the battle of Chancellorsville and confined in the notorious Libby Prison until exchanged . He again commanded his company in the battles of Battle of Fort Wagner , Morris Island , Fort Gregg and in the siege of Fort Sumter in South Carolina and engagements at Camp Baldwin and Battle of Gainesville in Florida . He was mustered out in 1865 . On April 25 , 1865 , he married to Mary M . Campbell , the daughter of an Ohio state senator . Postbellum career . Morey then undertook the study of law and was graduated from the Indianapolis Law School in 1867 and was admitted to the Ohio bar , commencing practice in Hamilton , Ohio , in partnership with one of his six brothers . His wife Mary died July 1 , 1867 , in Hamilton . On February 26 , 1873 , he was married to Ella R . Campbell , sister of his first wife . Morey was elected as a Republican to two terms as city solicitor of Hamilton ( 1871 – 1875 ) . He was also elected prosecuting attorney of Butler County , Ohio , in 1873 , serving concurrently . In 1875 , he ran unsuccessfully for the Ohio Senate . H . L . Morey was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1876 . In 1880 , he was elected as a Republican from Ohio ’ s third district to the Forty - seventh Congress . In 1882 , following the reapportionment as a result of the 1880 census , he ran in Ohio ’ s seventh district and presented credentials as a Member - elect to the Forty - eighth Congress , serving until June 20 , 1884 . James E . Campbell successfully contested the election and was seated June 21 , 1884 . He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884 . In 1888 , Morey was again elected from Ohio ’ s seventh district to the Fifty - first Congress . However , back in the Third district the following term , he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1890 . After his last term in Congress , Morey resumed the practice of law in Hamilton . He was a Mason , having advanced to the Knight Templar degree . He also was an Odd Fellow , a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Royal Arcanum . He died in 1902 and was interred in Greenwood Cemetery . Henry L . Morey was a cousin of James Whitcomb , governor of Indiana ( 1843 – 1848 ) and United States Senator from Indiana ( 1849 – 1852 ) .