CIVIL WAR 5x LIBBY PRISON ESCAPE CAPTAIN 21st WI CONGRESSMAN AUTOGRAPH SIGNED VF

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Civil War Captain Charles Henry Morgan
CIVIL WAR LIBBY PRISON ESCAPE ARTIST POW LT. and CAPTAIN OF “F” Co. IN THE FIELD and STAFF OF THE 21st WISCONSIN INFANTRY 1862-1865

HERE IS A LEAF WITH MORGAN’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19th CENTURY AUTOGRAPH ALBUM

SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR LT. COLONEL and COMMANDER OF THE 5th MISSOURI VOLUNTEER INFANTRY
5-TERM US DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM MISSOURI 1875-1879, 1883-1885, 1893-95
US REPUBLICAN PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM MO 1909-11,
MEMBER OF THE MISSOURI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM LAMAR, BARTON COUNTY, MISSOURI 1872-1874,

 At the call for troops in 1861, Charles Henry Morgan enlisted in the Union Army and was first mustered into the 1st Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry as a private. In 1862 he became an officer in the 21st Wisc.  Before he was twenty-two he had escaped five times from rebel prisons and had fought in eleven pitched battles and engagements of the war. He had many remarkable escapes from imprisonment or death.