MORGAN, DANIEL An can soldier prominent in the Revolution:11y War. Ile was born in Hunterdon County. N. J., re moved to Virginia in 1753, served as a teamster under Braddock in 1755, and during an Indian ea mpa ign years later was seriously wounded. He to Winchester in 1762 and oompied himself with farming and stock-rais ing. but served as a lieutenant in Pontiac's ‘N'ar and as a captain in Lord Dunmore's War, In 1775 he was put in command of a company of Virginia riflemen, with whom he joined Washing ton at Cambridge in July. Accompanying _\r nuld's expedition against Quebec, he served with great efficiency and gallantry, both on the mareh and in the attack of December 31. 1775. when he was captured by the enemy. lie was regularly exchanged before the close of 1776 : was appointed colonel of a Virginia regiment, and in 1777 played a most important part in the campaign against Burgoyne. Tn 1778 be served in New
Jersey under Washington. and in June. 1779, dissatisfied with the polity of Congress as re gards promot bins, he resigned; though in Sep tember. 1780. he joined Gates at Hillsboro'. N. C., as a brigadier-general. Ile was conspicuous for his ability and energy throughout the Sonthern eampaign, and was in (bird eommand at the bat tle of Cowiwns (q.v.), where he defeated Tarte ton: but. owing to bodily infirmities, lie was foreed to from the army in ..\thmst, 1781. After the war he devoted himself chiefly to farming, though in 1794 for a time, during the Whisky Insurrection, he served as a major general, and in 1796 he was elected to Congress. lie died at Winchester, Va., July 6, 1S02. Con sult G ra ha in, Life of General Daniel Morgan of the Virginia Line (New York. 1856) ; and Mc Conkey, The Hero of Com-pens (New York, 2d ed., 1885).