The victory of the Cowpens gave great joy to the friends of liberty throughout the whole country.  Congress received information of it on the 8th of February following, and on the 9th of March voted an award of a gold medal to Morgan; a silver medal to Howard and Washington; a sword to Col.  Pickens, and a vote of thanks to the other officers and men engaged in the battle.

At this time, Cornwallis was advancing triumphantly in the direction of North Carolina, having placed South Carolina and Georgia, as he thought, in submission at his feet.  The defeat and death of Ferguson, one of his most efficient officers, at King’s Mountain, and now of Tarleton, his favorite partisan, greatly withered his hopes of strong Tory cooperation.  His last hope was the destruction of Greene’s army by his own superior force, and, with that design in view, he broke up his encampment near Turkey creek, and like Saul, “yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter” against Morgan’s little army, he commenced that pursuit of the “hero of the Cowpens,” who, encumbered with his five hundred prisoners, under various Providential interpositions, made good his retreat into Virginia, constituting one of the most thrilling and successful military achievements of the American Revolution.

GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN.

General Daniel Morgan was born in Bucks county, Pennsylvania, in 1737, and moved to Virginia in 1755.  He was a private soldier under General Braddock, and after the defeat of that officer returned to his occupation of a farmer and a wagoner.  When the war of the Revolution broke out, he joined the army under General Washington, at Cambridge, and commanded a corps of riflemen.  He was with General Montgomery at Quebec, and with General Gates at Saratoga, in both of which battles he greatly distinguished himself.  For his bravery he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and joined the army in the South.  After the battle of Camden, when General Greene assumed the chief command, General Morgan was detached to raise troops in the western part of the State and in South Carolina.  He soon became distinguished as a partisan officer, inspiring confidence and arousing the despondent Whigs to a more active sense of duty.  His victory at the Cowpens was justly considered as one of the most brilliant and decided victories of the Revolution, and Congress accordingly voted him a gold medal.  At the close of the war, he returned to his farm.  In 1794 he was appointed by General Washington to quell the Whisky Insurrection in Western Virginia, and after the difficulties were settled, he was elected a member of Congress and served from 1797 to 1799.  His health failing, he declined a re-election.  His farm in Clarke county, a few miles from Winchester, Va., was called Saratoga.  In 1800, he removed to Winchester, where he died on the 6th of July, 1802, in the sixty-seventh year of his age.