John Morgan served in the United States Civil War. Side: USA
Occupation
Barber
Military Service
First Sergeant in the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry regiment, Company G. Enlisted from Cincinnati, OH on 14 April 1863. He was 24, married and working as a barber. Wounded on 18 July 1863 at Fort Wagner. Discharged 6 April 1864.
Emilio, Luis Fenollosa. History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, 1863-1865. Boston, MA, 1894. pg. 371.
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There is a John Morgan, age 21, "Mulatto", working as a barber in Cincinnati, Ohio in the household of Sarah J. Morgan, age 52, in the 1860 census. Maybe the same?