Person:John Morrison (63)

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Military Service of Major Morrison

John Morrison was a noted soldier, Indian fighter and woodsman. In the Revolutionary War, he fought for a time under George Rogers Clark and also served as a soldier in the Virginia Continental Line for three years. Morrison particularly distinguished himself at the Battle of Long Island Flats on the Holston River in East Tennessee (20 July 1776). At the Battle of Piqua (1780), he shot and loaded 13 times (an extraordinary feat!) and was shot in the ear; the well-known frontiersman, Josiah Collins, considering this feat, referred to him as "a brave man." On 04 July 1792, Isaac Shelby, Governor of the State of Kentucky, commissioned John as 1st Major of the 9th Regiment, Fayette County Militia.

Governor David Campbell’s Assessment of Major Morrison

David Campbell (1779-1859), Governor of Virginia from 1837-1840, made the following assessment of Major Morrison in a letter to Lyman Draper in 1842:

" … Captain John Morrison was afterwards among the first immigrants to Kentucky and settled a farm near Lexington where he resided until his death. He was Major John Morrison in Kentucky and performed much service in campaigns against the Indians – a plain unpretending man of great worth and the most dauntless courage. His wife was the sister of Col David Campbell of Campbell’s Station, Ten. and the first white woman that settled near Lexington. His two sons [Archibald and John] commanded companies in Col Dudley’s regiment during the last war [War of 1812]. Archibald was shot all to pieces almost in Dudley’s defeat and John and nearly all his company were killed … "