John Dabney Morris

Birth Date

1813-01-28

Death Date

1896-06-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Christian County, Kentucky, farmer and soldier. Hanover County, Virginia, native. Son of Richard Morris and Mary Watts Morris. Married to Margaret L. Meriwether Morris. Father of Fanny M. Morris, Mary L. Morris, and Richard Morris. Attended the University of Virginia. Attorney in San Antonio, Texas, in 1837. Served in the Mexican-American War. Farmer in Christian County from 1844 to 1860. Owned sixty-nine enslaved people in Christian County in 1850. Owned eighty-eight enslaved people in Christian County in 1860. Appointed by as bank commissioner by the provisional government of Kentucky to sequester deposits of Kentucky banks in 1861. Served in the First Kentucky Cavalry (C.S.A.) as a private in 1862. Volunteer aide-de-camp to Confederate General John S. Williams from 1862 to 1863. Appointed colonel of Provisional Army (Kentucky) of the Confederate States on September 13, 1864. Captured by U.S. Army in Kentucky in 1865 when recruiting. Exchanged as a prisoner of war in 1865.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District No. 2, p. 376A.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, District No. 2.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Unnamed District, p. 707.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Christian County, Unnamed District, p. 283B-284A..
Bruce S. Allardice and Lawrence Lee Hewitt, editors, Kentuckians in Gray: Field Officers of the Bluegrass State (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008), p. 303.
KYR-0004-033-0013.

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