Daniel Morgan (1736–1802)

by Charles Willson Peale

Accession number: 1960.1
Gift of Percy Robert Blythe

Morgan had come to the Shenandoah Valley from New Jersey by age eighteen. As captain, he commanded Virginia riflemen in the assault on Québec. As colonel, his corps of sharpshooters was critical in 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.

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