JAMES H. MORRISON -- 91st INFANTRYNINE MONTHS IN VIRGINIA - Almost 150 men enlisted in Plattsburgh inAugust, September and October 1864 for the 91st Infantry. James H.Morrison, who was 25 years old, was mustered into Company A with 5 othermen. Four men mustered out with him in June 1865 in Washington, 1 diedof disease in May 1865 and one waited until April 3, 1865, to desert.The men were enlisted during the regiment'sveteran's furlough and all the men recruited in 1864, were asked tovolunteer for only one year, or until the end of the war. Most of theregiment's service since December 1861 had been in the South. When theyreturned to the East in the fall of 1864. they were sent to Baltimore.In the spring of 1864, reinforced with new recruits such as James, the91st joined the Army of the Potomac near Petersburg and, finally, theAppomattox Campaign where they had 230 casualties.James was mustered out two months after Lee's surrender on April 9,1865. He returned to Warren County and supported his wife, Nancy, andtheir children by working as a farm laborer. His income was supplementedin 1879 when he started receiving his Invalid's Pension. In the GlensFalls Post Star of July 24, 1913, there was a snippet in thePottersville section -- "James Morrison, an aged veteran of the CivilWar, is very ill. There is little hope of his recovery." He died onSeptember 9, 1913 and was buried in the Schroon Lake ProtestantCemetery.
