Michael Ryan Morgan

Michael Ryan Morgan (1833-?), was a Canadian soldier.

Morgan was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 18 January 1833. He was appointed from Louisiana to the U.S. military academy, where he graduated in 1854, was assigned to the artillery, and served in garrison. He then served against hostile Native Americans till the American Civil War, during which he was in the subsistence department.

He was chief of commissariat of the 10th army corps in May and June, 1864, and of the armies operating against Richmond in 1864-1865, receiving all the brevets to brigadier-general in the regular army for his services in the campaigns of those two years. On 17 November 1865, he became commissary of subsistence with the rank of major, and was later the commissary-general of various departments. He became brigadier-general in 1894, and was retired in 1897.

References

 "Morgan, Michael Ryan". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 

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