Person:Peter Morgan (2)

Peter & Eliza Morgan were witnesses when John Jones & Catherine Rose Morgan were married - 4 Mar 1855.

He did not appear on any census

It is possible that he was a coal handler on the "CSS Nashville," from September - December, 1861. The CSS Nashville had originally been a passenger steamer running between New York and Charleston, and was seized by the Confederates after the fall of Fort Sumter, and fitted out as a cruiser. In October, 1861, the vessel, under the command of Lieutenant Robert B. Pegram, slipped through the blockade and journeyed to Southampton, England. Some months later she entered Beaufort, North Carolina after having captured two prize vessels. The vessel was later sold for use as a blockade runner and renamed Thomas L. Wragg. Some of the people jumped ship in Southampton, England - but if Peter Morgan had left Ireland to go to America and had a family back home, we doubt he would have done that.