George Nelson Morgan (September 7, 1825 – July 24, 1866) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War.

William Morgan Sr. was granted land in Canada after the war in 1784, settling in Osnabruck Township, Stormont County.

George N. Morgan moved St. Catharines, Ontario in the late 1840s, before immigrating to Minnesota in 1856, where he was a foundry and machine shop operator.

[1] Because of tuberculosis, he resigned, May 4, 1863, but was recovered sufficiently to be appointed major of the 2nd Regiment, Veteran Reserve Corps, May 26, 1863 and colonel, September 25, 1863.

[1] He commanded Fort Snelling, Minnesota, a training facility and frontier outpost during the Sioux and Dakota Wars.