A Biography of Union county Soldiers. Veterans' Photographic Souvenir. (G.A.R)

S. S. MORROW

S. S. Morrow, enlisted in Co. D. 47 Indiana Infantry Vol., at Liberty Mills, Indiana, and mustered into the United States service on the 21st day of October, 1861 at Indianapolis, Indiana. Was mustered out of the United States service at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on the 23rd day of October, 1865 and received his final discharge at Indianapolis, November 2, 1865. He served continuously with his regiment during its four years of service. From Indianapolis they were sent to join General Nelson's army in Kentucky. After the battle of Bowling Green, in the spring of 1862, they joined General Pope's army in Missouri, where they took part in the campaign against New Madrid and Island No. 10. It was his regiment that marched twenty-five miles down the river in the night and pulled a canon by hand and blockaded the river to prevent the rebels from shipping supplies to their army at Island No. 10. They were in the battle of Fort Pillow and his brigade was the first to land at Memphis, Tennessee, went thence to Helena, Arkansas, and helped to build Fort Curtis. They were engaged in the Vicksburg campaign and were in the battles of Port Gibson, Champion Hill, Vicksburg and Jackson. In the fall of '63 they were sent to New Orleans and took part in the Teche river campaign in western Louisiana. In the spring of '64 they took part in the famous Red river campaign. He with a detail from his regiment worked twelve days on the dam at Alexandria to let the gunboats down over the falls; went thence to Memphis where they took part in the Wolf river campaign, returned thence to the Gulf department in the spring of 1865 where they took part in the campaign against Mobile, Alabama. After the fall of Mobile they were sent to Schreveport, Louisiana, to receive the surrender of Dick Taylor's army where they remained during the summer of 1865. The subject of this sketch was born in Preble county, Ohio, October 16,1843, moved with his parents to Whiltey county, Indiana, the following year. His father died when he was but two years old and he was adopted by his grandparents, with whom he lived until the war broke out. He returned home after the war, was married to Miss. M. E. Tillman in March, 1867; moved to Grant township Union county, Iowa, in February, 1868; moved to Thayer, Iowa, in 1882 where he has since been engaged in the mercantile business,