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accompanied General Arnold to Canada, and was made prisoner at Quebec;
he served again under Washington, as colonel of a rifle regiment, in
1776, and greatly distinguished himself under General Gates at
Saratoga. He was brigadier-general in 1780, served in the South under
Generals Gates and Greene, and won the brilliant victory of the
Cowpens, January 17, 1781, for which Congress gave him a vote of
thanks and a gold medal. Soon afterward he resigned from ill health,
and retired to his plantation. He was a member of Congress from 1795
to 1799. In 1780 he removed to Winchester, Virginia, where he died
July 6, 1802.

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ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS.

_Resolutions of Congress Voting Medals to General Morgan and to
Lieutenant-Colonels Washington and Howard, etc._

BY THE UNITED STATES IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED.

Considering it as a tribute due to distinguished merit to give a
public approbation of the conduct of Brigadier-General Morgan,
and of the officers and men under his command, on the 17th day of
January last, when with 80 cavalry and 237 infantry of the troops
of the United States, and 553 militia from the States of
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, he (p. 042)
obtained a complete and important victory over a select and
well appointed detachment of more than 1,100 British troops
commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel Tarleton; do therefore
_resolve_:--

That the thanks of the United States in Congress assembled be
given to Brigadier-General Morgan, and the officers and men under
his command, for their fortitude and good conduct displayed in
the action at the Cowpens, in the State of South Carolina, on the
17th day of January last:

That a medal of gold be presented to Brigadier-General Morgan,
and a medal of silver to Lieutenant-Colonel Washington (William),
of the cavalry, and one of silver to Lieutenant-Colonel Howard,
of the infantry of the United States; severally with emblems and
mottoes descriptive of the conduct of those officers respectively
on that memorable day:

That a sword be presented to Colonel Pickens, of the militia, in
testimony of his spirited conduct in the action before mentioned:

That Captain Edward Giles, aid-de-camp of Brigadier-General
Morgan, have the brevet commission of major; and that Baron de
Glasbuch, who s