Ephraim A. Morrow was born in the early 1820s in Ohio to William Morrow and Britannia Clark. By 1860, he was working as a farmer in Shelby County, Ohio, and he owned $2,500 of real estate and $100 of personal property. He enlisted in the Union army on June 20, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company F of the 11^th Ohio Infantry. He remained devoted to the Union, writing in March 1863 that he and his comrades were "fighting for the Republic to it we have given our hearts our arms our lives." He denounced northern Peace Democrats and declared that "Our soldiers have gone through too many hardships & privations -- have left to many of their comrades dead upon ensanguined battle fields & have moisened too many hills & valleys with their own blood to think of any compromise with traitors at home or foes in the South except it be the compromise of a fully restored & unconditional Union." He died of chronic diarrhea in Carthage, Tennessee, on June 2, 1863.

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