[2] By June 1864, however, the 2nd Wisconsin Infantry had been so badly decimated by the war, that it could no longer be sustained as a regiment and was instead reconstituted as an independent battalion of two companies.

[4] The independent battalion was assigned to provost duty for the division, but participated in further fighting at the Siege of Petersburg.

[5] After the Union took possession of Petersburg and Richmond, the Iron Brigade was instrumental in the Appomattox campaign, the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia, and the capture of Confederate president Jefferson Davis.

They rented a large farm, but ran into problems with the landlord, resulting in months of legal disputes.

As a result of his holding the county office, his eligibility to simultaneously serve as senator was called into question.

In the Fall of 1873, the Mississippi Legislature passed a law disqualifying Morgan from his Senate seat, along with several other legislators who were also serving as county officers.

[8] On hearing this, Hilliard formed a posse of roughly 30 people and marched back to the court house.

[8] After several months, however, Morgan was able to secure bail, and subsequently the grand jury failed to produce an indictment against him.

Morgan reached out to them and heard, in response, that these companies were organizing to defend themselves against rumored black mobs and insurrection.

Morgan insisted that if such mobs existed, they were a matter for the sheriff; he offered to accompany them to locate and defuse any such insurrection.

While Morgan was speaking, armed white gangs entered the hall and began disrupting the speech.

The violence succeeded in preventing those populations from participating in the 1875 election and effectively ended reconstruction in Yazoo County.

[7] He had many siblings, but was most closely associated with his older brother Charles, who also served in the Union Army, and worked with him throughout the Reconstruction effort in Mississippi.

[1] While living in Mississippi Albert Morgan married Carolyn Victoria "Carrie" Highgate, an "Octoroon" school teacher from Ithaca, New York.

[7] Carrie was a teacher in post-war Mississippi, and much of Morgan's political efforts in Reconstruction were geared toward developing free education in Yazoo County.