(Book by Morgan, James Morris, Campbell, R. Thomas)
Book by Morgan, James Morris, Campbell, R. Thomas
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James M. Morgan was born on March 10, 1845, in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father, Thomas Gibbes Morgan, removed to Louisiana early in the nineteenth century. His first wife, Eliza McKennan, bore one child, Philip Hicky Morgan. James Morgan was the eighth child of Sarah Fowler, the second wife, and descended from Evan Morgan, who migrated from Wales to Philadelphia early in the eighteenth century.
He entered the United States Naval Academy in September 1860, where his class, the first to use "Old Ironsides" as a training-ship, became known as the "brood of the Constitution. "
The secession of Louisiana ended his career at Annapolis, however, and he became a midshipman in the Confederate navy. Serving first in the sloop McRae, on the Mississippi, he was transferred to the James River, then to Charleston. Accompanying Commodore Matthew F. Maury to Europe in October 1862, he served on board the cruiser Georgia until May 1864, then ran the blockade into Wilmington. Assigned to the schoolship Patrick Henry, on the James River (a "realistic war college"), he was soon sent to the naval Battery Semmes, near Dutch Gap. Since he was connected by marriage with Mrs. Jefferson Davis (his brother had married her cousin), he was detailed by the secretary of the navy to accompany her on her flight from Richmond, shortly before its fall.
In 1866, through General Sherman, Khedive Ismail Pasha of Egypt engaged ten Union and ten Confederate veterans to drill his army, and Morgan, finding law and agriculture uncongenial, accepted an Egyptian commission. After three busy and exciting years, he returned to the United States in 1872.
He now tried farming and journalism in South Carolina, and participated in the campaign of 1876 which ousted the Carpet-bag rule. After serving a while as messenger to a committee of the United States Senate, Morgan tried engineering and prospecting in Mexico. He also helped erect the Statue of Liberty.
In 1885 his brother-in-law, F. W. Dawson, editor of the Charleston News and Courier, procured from President Cleveland Morgan's appointment as consul-general to Australasia. He was accompanied to his post by his third wife, Frances, daughter of Judge Charles A. Fincke of New York.
Returning to America in 1888, Morgan tried farming and horse breeding in Maryland until 1898, when he removed to Washington. Besides participating in various financial enterprises, he did some writing and speaking. In 1903, as the representative of a banking house, he was in Panama at the time of the birth of that republic.
He contributed numerous articles to magazines, and in 1915, in collaboration with J. P. Marquand, published a small volume of stories, Prince and Boatswain: Sea Tales from the Recollections of Rear-Admiral Charles E. Clark. His masterpiece was his autobiography, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, published in 1917. He was stricken with paralysis in January 1928, and died shortly after his eighty-third birthday on April 21, 1928, in Washington City, District of Columbia.
James Morris Morgan was a noted naval officer and military, who served in Egyptian army and later a consul general in Australia. In addition, he was appointed by Charles P. Stone, chief engineer for the Statue of Liberty project (Morgan served under General Stone in Egypt), as an engineer working on the construction of the statue's pedastal.
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(Book by Morgan, James Morris, Campbell, R. Thomas)
Not yet twenty-one, James Morgan married, in October 1865, Helen, daughter of G. A. Trenholm of Charleston, late Confederate secretary of the treasury. She died a year later, leaving an infant daughter, Emily.
His second wife, whom he married in 1873, was Gabriella Burroughs, grand-daughter of Chancellor W. F. DeSaussure of South Carolina. She died in a few years, leaving him another daughter.
Philip Hicky Morgan was an attorney, jurist, and diplomat from Louisiana.
John Phillips Marquand was an American writer.
