Individual Details

Have found no indication his middle name was "Quin" except from Paul Morton.
Served in Co. C, Clark's Regt. of the MO Infantry as a Corporal. (CSA). Later changed to the Federal Army. According to a descendant, he enlisted in the 15th Kansas Cavalry Volunteers and participated in raids on Crawford Co.
Found in "History of Crawford County" p.297: in a remembrance of the Civil War, is the statement "Some time in the late summer of 1864, Jess Morton, with a number of others came to this community for the purpose of capturing Frank Whitehead, Frank Oliver and others" [Whitehead, Oliver were Rebel bushwhackers]

Listed in the 1860 Census, next to his father. He was age 22, Elvira, age 15.

Birth	1838	Arkansas
Military	1862	Co. C, Clark's Regt. of the MO Infantry, CSA, Civil War
Military	1864	15th Kansas Cavalry Volunteers, USA, Civil War

Father	Andrew Morton (1797 - 1861)
Mother	Elizabeth Larimore (1807 - 1873)
Sibling	Martha A. Morton (1832 - )
Sibling	Nancy Morton (1833 - )
Sibling	William Morton (1840 - 1868)
Sibling	Mary Morton (1843 - )
Sibling	James Morton (1845 - )
Sibling	Alice F. Morton (1851 - 1898)