Morgan Neville, Esq., the lineal
heir of General Morgan._
_Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress assembled_, That, in pursuance of the
request of Morgan Neville, in his memorial presented at the
present session of Congress, the director of the mint be and he
is hereby authorized and directed to cause to be struck, a gold
medal, of the intrinsic value of one hundred and fifty dollars,
in honour of the battle of the Cowpens, which was fought on the
seventeenth day of January, seventeen hundred and eighty-one, to
replace the original medal presented by a resolution of the
Continental Congress, of March ninth, seventeen hundred and
eighty-one, to Brigadier-General Daniel Morgan; the said medal to
be struck from the original die, and delivered when executed to
the said Morgan Neville, the lineal heir of General Morgan; the
expense of the same to be paid out of any money in the treasury
not otherwise appropriated.
Approved July 2d, 1836.
No. 9. (p. 046)
PLATE IX.
_January 17, 1781._
Gulielmo Washington legionis equit. praefecto Comitia American.
[Rx]. Quod parva militum manu, etc.
LIEUTENANT-COLONEL WILLIAM AUGUSTINE WASHINGTON.
[_Victory of the Cowpens._]
GULIELMO WASHINGTON LEGIONIS EQUIT. (_equitum_) PRAEFECTO COMITIA
AMERICAN. (_Americana._) (_The American Congress to William
Washington, commander of a regiment of cavalry._) Lieutenant-Colonel
Washington, at the head of his men, is pursuing the enemy's cavalry. A
winged Victory hovers above him, holding in her right hand a crown of
laurel, and in her left a palm branch. DUV. (_Duvivier_).
Within a crown of laurel: QUOD PARVA MILITUM MANU STRENUE PROSECUTUS
HOSTES VIRTUTIS INGENITAE PRAECLARUM SPECIMEN DEDIT IN PUGNA AD COWPENS
XVII. JAN. (_Januarii_) MDCCLXXXI.(_Because in vigorously pursuing the
enemy with a handful of soldiers he gave a noble example of innate
courage at the battle of the Cowpens, January 17, 1781_).[41],[42]
[Footnote 41: See INTRODUCTION, pages x, xi, xii,
xvii, xxiii, xxviii, xxxv; B, xxxvi; G, xlv; and H,
xlvii.]
[Footnote 42: The resolution of Congress voting
this medal, and the official report of the battle
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