Jonnie Hunt Caldwell

Seven months after the death of General Morgan, Mattie gave birth to a daughter - Johnnie Hunt Morgan was born on April 7, 1865, just two days before General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.

The child was a great comfort to Mattie in her grief. In a letter to her mother-in-law a few months later, Mattie wrote: "She has indeed proved a blessing to me direct from God, and the only happiness I look forward to in the future is that of rearing her. She is said to be a perfect little Morgan in appearance."

During the summer of 1865, Mattie and little Johnnie returned to her parents' home in Murfreesboro, where she devoted most of her time and energy to raising her young child, and representing her late husband as the widow of a Lost Cause hero.

Six months after her mother's death, Johnnie married the Reverend Joseph W. Caldwell, a Presbyterian minister from Selma, Alabama. On June 28, 1888, at age 23, shortly after her honeymoon, Johnnie died of typhoid fever, thereby leaving no direct descendants of John Hunt and Martha Ready Morgan.

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The child was a great comfort to Mattie in her grief. In a letter to her mother-in-law a few months later, Mattie wrote: "She has indeed proved a blessing to me direct from God, and the only happiness I look forward to in the future is that of rearing her. She is said to be a perfect little Morgan in appearance."

During the summer of 1865, Mattie and little Johnnie returned to her parents' home in Murfreesboro, where she devoted most of her time and energy to raising her young child, and representing her late husband as the widow of a Lost Cause hero.

http://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/2008/11/martha-ready-morgan.html