Dewitt Morrill enlisted as a Private on 5 August 1862 at the age of 18 in Company F, 7th Infantry Regiment Maine. He was promoted to 2nd Lieutenant in 1864. [12]

[1][Anonymous], Vital Records of Methuen, Massachusetts, to the end of the year 1849 (Topsfield, MA: Topsfield Historical Society, 1909), 90.

[2]1850 US Census , Atkinson ME, p. 300. Ephraim Town Morrill is indexed as "Morrill, E. S.".

[3]Ann Lisa Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Families Association Newsletter , VII(1): 325.

[4]Belfast (Maine) City Clerk, [Belfast, Maine] Town and Vital Records, 1773-1892 (Salt Lake City : Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1954).

[5]Date estimated from age at death.

[6]Pearson, Morrill/Morrell Newsletter [note 3], 2(2): 12.

[7]ibid., VII(1): 325.

[8]ibid., VII(1): 325.

[9]ibid., VII(1): 325.

[10]Date inferred from record of enlistment in the U.S. Army.

[11]1880 US Census , Lake View IL, p. 210A. DeWitt C. Morrill found living with his sister Caroline Brown and her children.

[12]Historical Data Systems, American Civil War Soldiers (Electronic database at http://www.ancestry.com).