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Morton, Charles Adams

soldier, merchant, banker. After leaving school he engaged in the commission and wholeand wholesale grocery business with his brother at St. Louis, with a branch house Memphis, Tenn. At the commencement of hostilities in the spring of 1861 he received autnority from Governor Dick Yates of Illinois, to raise company, which went into camp at Camp Buta ler, and with others formed the thirtysecond Illinois infantry, commanded by Colonel John Logan. In November, 1861, Colonel Morton was detached from his regiment and ordered to report to General Sherman for duty as commissary of subsistence. In April, 1863, he was promoted to a lieutenant-colonelcy, and assigned to duty as chief of commissary of subsistence, fifteenth army corps, Major-General W. T. Sherman commanding.

Subsequently, upon the return to Washington of General Macfeely, he was assigned to duty as chief C. S. of the army of the Tennessee, and did not leave the army until the winter of 1865. From 1865 to 1871 he resided in St. Louis. In the latter year he removed to St. Paul, where he engaged in banking, real estate and commission business until 1880, when he removed to Fargo, and organized the firm of Morton and Company, for the transaction of real estate and commission business. He was also president of the Exchange bank of Fargo from 1888 to 1892.