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Z. F. Morris
CAPT. ZACHARIAH F. MORRIS - son of Hazlewood and Rebecca E. (GRIFFIN) MORRIS, was born in Nelson County, Virginia, December 22, 1829. He has been many years one of the substantial farming residents of Anthonys Creek district, Greenbrier County, owning one hundred acres of bottom land, all under cultivation. He has a bearing orchard of apples, peaches, cherries, plums, and grapes, and has 800 acres of upland in timber, oak, ash and sugar. On his land is a sulphur spring, unexcelled in medicinal qualities by any spring in West Virginia. He has been a number of years a notary public, and still ably discharges the duties of the office.

August 15, 1853, he married Emily E., daughter of James and Mary M. (LINDSEY) DOLAN, born in Fluvanna County, Virginia, January 22, 1828. Their children were born: James Walton, Marion Lindsey,  Mary Rebecca, Ida Marshall,  Robert Lindsey,  Martha Virginia,   Wyatt, . Virginia M., is in Lexington, Virginia, the others living in Greenbrier County. 

Postmaster, Alvon, WV prior to war.
Zachariah F. Morris entered the Confederate army in the early months of the civil war, and served until its close. He was captain of Company G., 26th Virginia Battalion, and the following are a few of the many engagements in which his company, under his leading, participated: Lewisburg, Cold Harbor, Gaines Mills, Winchester, Fishers Hill, White Sulphur, Handleys, Martinsburg, Kernstown, and Strausburg. He was wounded at White Sulphur, and captured at Roanoke Island at the surrender of Wise and his army.

Capt Z. F. Morris commanded the White Sulphur Rifles, Co.G, 26th Battalion Virginia Infantry. It formed June 1, 1861, and assigned as Co. C, 59th Inf. Regiment. (2nd regiment, Wise Legion)

It was reassigned to 26th Battn on May 20, 1862.  Capt. Morris was wounded in the head, his left ear shot off, in the Battle of White Sulphur Springs. He also particapted in the Battle of New Market. On Sept 8, 1864, he was placed on light duty due to his head wounds, and Co. G was combined with Co.E, Captain Hefner. 

Capt Z. M. Morris returned to White Sulphur Springs and placed in command of a independent battalion of partisan rangers, Jan. 1865.  Later he commanded Hounshells' Battalion of Partisan Rangers when Lt. Col. Hounshell became commander of the Department. General Echols had left the department to join Lee at Richmond

Capt. Morris was devoted to his men, and in turn was loved by them.

Alvon, Greenbrier County, West Virginia, is his post office address.
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