Civil War Veterans of Monterey County, California.

Researched and Compiled by : 
Timothy P. Reese, PCC of Salinas , CA. & Robert L. Nelson ,PCC. of Santa Cruz.CA. 
Both members of the “Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War”. 
Department of California & Pacific. Camp Abraham Lincoln # 10.  
The Reese-Nelson CWV-MC Data Base


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MORRISY, THOMAS   (1841-?)   UNKNOWN
(Memorial and Biographical History of the Coat Counties of Central California,  
Barrows/Ingersoll ,  The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, 1893 , Pages 365-6)

  Thomas Morrisy is a farmer and resident of Castroville.  He came to California in 1865 direct 
from his native county of, Ireland.  He was then about seventeen years of age, having been 
born in Limerick county in 1841.  He spent three years in the war of the Rebellion, in the Union 
army, as a soldier of the One hundred and Forty-nine New York Volunteer Infantry: soon after 
his enlistment he was transferred into the regular army.  He fought through the battles of the 
Wilderness and the battle of Gettysburg, besides numerous hot engagements of less note, and 
received two wounds in his left leg.
  he was married to Mrs. Edward Nolan.  By her former marriage she had two children Mary 
and Lizzie, and by her latter marriage she had one son, Thomas.