Private, Company D, 15th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union
In the 1860 federal census, Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, Zadoc was 36 years old, and his wife Sarah was 34. They had 2 children: Henry, 13, and Mary, 11. Zadock R Morse enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Infantry, Connecticut, on August 9, 1862. He was discharged for disability on May 22, 1863.
SAD MISTAKE.
A Citizen Supposed to be a Burglar is Shot.
From the New Haven Journal, Sept. 28.
Incited by the operations of burglars in Fair Haven, lately, Mr. Leonard Russell and two companions undertook the task of watching for the rogues, and on Friday night last they took a position near the Second Congregational Church, in front of the house of Mr. Zadoc R. Morse, from which place they had a view of the roads in four directions. The night was dark and rainy. They watchers kept their places till an early hour in the morning, when Mr. Henry A. Morse, the son of the gentleman above mentioned, walked unconcernedly to the gate in front of the house, and was on the point of entering, when he stepped on the foot of Mr. Russell, who was sitting or lying beneath a tree near the gate. Startled by the unexpected occurrence, he sprang to one side and demanded, "Who is here?" Thereupon Mr. Russell, supposing he was accosted by some one of the gang of burglars who have so excited the Fair Haveners, drew a navy revolver and fired at Morse, the ball taking effect just below the right cheek-bone, passing through the auricular canal and lodging in the thick bones just in the rear of the ear. As soon as the shot was fired Mr. Morse, supposing he was assaulted by burglars, ran to the house and called his father. The mistake was at once painfully apparent. Dr. Thompson was at once called, and after a painful operation the ball was removed and the unfortunate man, weak with the loss of blood, was made as comfortable as possible. His wounds, though serious, are not mortal. It appears that Mr. Morse returned on the 2 o'clock owl train from a business engagement at Saybrook, and walked from New Haven to Fair Haven. This accounts for his appearance at the gate at the early hour mentioned.
—The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Thursday, October 1, 1868, p. 1
Zadoc R Morse married Nettie H Smith on December 25, 1890, in West Haven, Connecticut.
In the 1860 federal census, Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, Zadoc was 36 years old, and his wife Sarah was 34. They had 2 children: Henry, 13, and Mary, 11. Zadock R Morse enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Infantry, Connecticut, on August 9, 1862. He was discharged for disability on May 22, 1863.
SAD MISTAKE.
A Citizen Supposed to be a Burglar is Shot.
From the New Haven Journal, Sept. 28.
Incited by the operations of burglars in Fair Haven, lately, Mr. Leonard Russell and two companions undertook the task of watching for the rogues, and on Friday night last they took a position near the Second Congregational Church, in front of the house of Mr. Zadoc R. Morse, from which place they had a view of the roads in four directions. The night was dark and rainy. They watchers kept their places till an early hour in the morning, when Mr. Henry A. Morse, the son of the gentleman above mentioned, walked unconcernedly to the gate in front of the house, and was on the point of entering, when he stepped on the foot of Mr. Russell, who was sitting or lying beneath a tree near the gate. Startled by the unexpected occurrence, he sprang to one side and demanded, "Who is here?" Thereupon Mr. Russell, supposing he was accosted by some one of the gang of burglars who have so excited the Fair Haveners, drew a navy revolver and fired at Morse, the ball taking effect just below the right cheek-bone, passing through the auricular canal and lodging in the thick bones just in the rear of the ear. As soon as the shot was fired Mr. Morse, supposing he was assaulted by burglars, ran to the house and called his father. The mistake was at once painfully apparent. Dr. Thompson was at once called, and after a painful operation the ball was removed and the unfortunate man, weak with the loss of blood, was made as comfortable as possible. His wounds, though serious, are not mortal. It appears that Mr. Morse returned on the 2 o'clock owl train from a business engagement at Saybrook, and walked from New Haven to Fair Haven. This accounts for his appearance at the gate at the early hour mentioned.
—The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Thursday, October 1, 1868, p. 1
Zadoc R Morse married Nettie H Smith on December 25, 1890, in West Haven, Connecticut.
Private, Company D, 15th Regiment, Connecticut Infantry, Union
In the 1860 federal census, Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, Zadoc was 36 years old, and his wife Sarah was 34. They had 2 children: Henry, 13, and Mary, 11. Zadock R Morse enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Infantry, Connecticut, on August 9, 1862. He was discharged for disability on May 22, 1863.
SAD MISTAKE.
A Citizen Supposed to be a Burglar is Shot.
From the New Haven Journal, Sept. 28.
Incited by the operations of burglars in Fair Haven, lately, Mr. Leonard Russell and two companions undertook the task of watching for the rogues, and on Friday night last they took a position near the Second Congregational Church, in front of the house of Mr. Zadoc R. Morse, from which place they had a view of the roads in four directions. The night was dark and rainy. They watchers kept their places till an early hour in the morning, when Mr. Henry A. Morse, the son of the gentleman above mentioned, walked unconcernedly to the gate in front of the house, and was on the point of entering, when he stepped on the foot of Mr. Russell, who was sitting or lying beneath a tree near the gate. Startled by the unexpected occurrence, he sprang to one side and demanded, "Who is here?" Thereupon Mr. Russell, supposing he was accosted by some one of the gang of burglars who have so excited the Fair Haveners, drew a navy revolver and fired at Morse, the ball taking effect just below the right cheek-bone, passing through the auricular canal and lodging in the thick bones just in the rear of the ear. As soon as the shot was fired Mr. Morse, supposing he was assaulted by burglars, ran to the house and called his father. The mistake was at once painfully apparent. Dr. Thompson was at once called, and after a painful operation the ball was removed and the unfortunate man, weak with the loss of blood, was made as comfortable as possible. His wounds, though serious, are not mortal. It appears that Mr. Morse returned on the 2 o'clock owl train from a business engagement at Saybrook, and walked from New Haven to Fair Haven. This accounts for his appearance at the gate at the early hour mentioned.
—The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Thursday, October 1, 1868, p. 1
Zadoc R Morse married Nettie H Smith on December 25, 1890, in West Haven, Connecticut.
In the 1860 federal census, Orange, New Haven County, Connecticut, Zadoc was 36 years old, and his wife Sarah was 34. They had 2 children: Henry, 13, and Mary, 11. Zadock R Morse enlisted as a private in Company D, 15th Infantry, Connecticut, on August 9, 1862. He was discharged for disability on May 22, 1863.
SAD MISTAKE.
A Citizen Supposed to be a Burglar is Shot.
From the New Haven Journal, Sept. 28.
Incited by the operations of burglars in Fair Haven, lately, Mr. Leonard Russell and two companions undertook the task of watching for the rogues, and on Friday night last they took a position near the Second Congregational Church, in front of the house of Mr. Zadoc R. Morse, from which place they had a view of the roads in four directions. The night was dark and rainy. They watchers kept their places till an early hour in the morning, when Mr. Henry A. Morse, the son of the gentleman above mentioned, walked unconcernedly to the gate in front of the house, and was on the point of entering, when he stepped on the foot of Mr. Russell, who was sitting or lying beneath a tree near the gate. Startled by the unexpected occurrence, he sprang to one side and demanded, "Who is here?" Thereupon Mr. Russell, supposing he was accosted by some one of the gang of burglars who have so excited the Fair Haveners, drew a navy revolver and fired at Morse, the ball taking effect just below the right cheek-bone, passing through the auricular canal and lodging in the thick bones just in the rear of the ear. As soon as the shot was fired Mr. Morse, supposing he was assaulted by burglars, ran to the house and called his father. The mistake was at once painfully apparent. Dr. Thompson was at once called, and after a painful operation the ball was removed and the unfortunate man, weak with the loss of blood, was made as comfortable as possible. His wounds, though serious, are not mortal. It appears that Mr. Morse returned on the 2 o'clock owl train from a business engagement at Saybrook, and walked from New Haven to Fair Haven. This accounts for his appearance at the gate at the early hour mentioned.
—The Evening Telegraph (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Thursday, October 1, 1868, p. 1
Zadoc R Morse married Nettie H Smith on December 25, 1890, in West Haven, Connecticut.
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Dec. 27, 1903
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