Daniel Morgan, an American general, born in New Jersey in 1736, died in Winchester, Va., July 6, 1802. In early life he removed to Frederick (now Clarke) co., Va. In 1755 he joined the expedition of Braddock as a teamster, and for some real or fancied indignity to a British officer received 500 lashes. He also received a painful wound which disfigured his countenance for life. He worked as a fanner till the outbreak of the revolution, when, in command of a company of riflemen, he started for Boston, reaching the American camp, after a march of 600 miles, in three weeks. In December, 1775, he accompanied the expedition of Arnold to Quebec, and in the attack on that city was taken prisoner. Soon after his release, toward the close of 1770, he was appointed colonel of a rifle regiment. During Washington's retreat through New Jersey in 1770 and the campaign in the same state in 1777, he rendered valuable services, and in the summer of the latter year joined Gates, then in command of the northern army. In the battle of Be-mus's heights Morgan's riflemen took a distinguished part. Continuing in active service in the north until the summer of 1780, he was then made brigadier general and transferred to the southern army.

He gained a decisive victory over Tarleton at the Cowpens, Jan. 17, 1781, for which he received a gold medal from congress, and followed it up by a scries of well conceived manoeuvres which seriously embarrassed Cornwallis. Before the close of the campaign he was compelled by ill health to retire to his home in Virginia. He aided in quelling the whiskey insurrection in Pennsylvania in 1794, and was a member of congress from 1795 to 1799.