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Daniel Morgan (1736-1802) by Charles Willson Peale. Morgan had come to the Shenandoah Valley from New Jersey by age eighteen. As captain, he commanded Virginia riflemen in the assault on Quebec. As colonel, his corps of sharpshooters was critical at Saratoga, New York -- the turning point of the war. As brigadier general, he and troops under his command annihilated a whole wing of the British army at Cowpens, South Carolina on January 17, 1781. He retired to his Clarke County home, Saratoga. |