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I have been working off and on at trying to make a bit of sense of the Belmont, Waldo County, Maine MORSE families, especially the descendants of early settler, Barnard Morse. My Morse ancestor, Moses Morse, came to Belmont much later, around 1860's. Barnard Morse settled in the lower part of Belmont, Maine before the incorporation of the Town in 1814. It was then a part of Greene Plantation.
I know that four of Barnard Morse's sons, Lewis B., Lucius C., Samuel and George W., served in Co. B of the 26th Maine Regiment of Volunteers, and they are well documented as being Civil War veterans.
In an article written in 'The Republican Journal', a Belfast, Maine newspaper, written about Albert Chandler Morse, taken from a newspaper column in the Peabody, Mass. Times of 11 Feb. 1944, was written, "It seems that all the Morse family joined the famous 26th Maine regiment, a fighting unit that saw many of the toughest battles including the famous Bull Run affair."
Barnard Morse had six sons. I have not been able to find any other reference to Leander or William Bradford Morse serving in the Civil War.
I have heard that it costs a few hundred dollars now to get Civil War Records from the National Archives by mail. When I first sent for records, around 1978, I paid $3. for copies of what was in a Civil War record file. The price went to $6., and then I think the last I paid was $10.
Later I was given copies of some of the Civil War records by someone fortunate enough to go to the National Archives in Washington, D. C. and copy all of what was in the files, and took note that what I considered important pages were not in the papers copied by whoever copied them at the Archives.
In the 23 Sept. 1989 issue of 'The Republican Journal', I [IMM] wrote an article about the four Morse brothers of Belmont, Maine who served in Co. B., 26th Maine Regiment of volunteers. I would very much like to learn, perhaps from a descendant, whether or not William and Leander Morse served in the Civil War. God bless. Isabel Morse Maresh, Belmont, Maine mareshme@fairpoint.net
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