OCCU Captain in the Confederate Army
EDUC Transylvania Univ, 1859
Soon after graduating from Transylvania University in 1859, Charlton Hunt Morgan accepted an appointment as U.S. Consul to Messina, Italy, from which position he became the first diplomat to
recognize the new Garibaldi government. He served as
Giribaldi's aide-de-camp and was wounded in Italy's fight for independence even while maintaining his official U.S. government appointment, which he however resigned in 1861.
Shortly thereafter, he was appointed Secretary of the Southern Commission, headquartered in London, England. Morgan returned to the U.S. and retired from the diplomatic service just as the Civil War
opened. He served as an aide at Manassas
("Bull Run") and was later wounded and captured at the Battle of Shiloh, but then exchanged. He volunteered as Captain in his brother John Hunt Morgan's Kentucky regiment, and accompanied his
brother throughout 1862-1863 until their mutual
capture just before hostilities ceased. At that time he returned to Virginia to rejoin the Morgan regiment now commanded by General Basil W. Duke.
Generally unsuccessful in business and forever seeking political appointments, Charlton Hunt Morgan Senior was employed by the U.S. Internal Revenue Service for his last fifteen years, serving as
well as Steward of the East Kentucky Lunatic
Asylum (of which John Wesley Hunt had been a founder and Chairman).
NAME "Bluegrass Pioneers -- A Chronicle of the Hunt and Morgan Families" by Charles P. Stanton; July, 1989, Published 1996
Civil War Pension Index: General Index to Pension Files, 1861-1934
Name: Morgan Carlton; Morgan Charlton
State Filed: Kentucky
Widow: Mary A. Carlton
