The Last Roll: Col. C. L. Morgan

Confederate Veteran
Volume 32, Number 11, Page 433
November 1924

The death of Col. C. L. Morgan, at [Ballingus], Tex., on March 11, 1924, removed from the walks of life a distinguished citizen and one of the youngest colonels who served in the Confederate army.

Colonel Morgan was born in Bastrop County, Tex., August 24, 1840, and was in his eighty-fourth year. At the beginning of the War between the States, he entered the service of Terry's Texas Rangers, and in later months of the service he was one of the hundred men who became the bodyguard of General Hindman. At the age of twenty-one years, as a member of the 8th Texas Regiment, he was given the commission of colonel of Morgan's Regiment, and he was presented to General Hindman as the youngest colonel in the Confederate service.

Funeral services were conducted by the pastors of the Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, and he was laid to rest in the cemetery at Coleman.