The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1891-02-18

ed Canada. General Morgan and
his band of sharpshooters were
known throughout the army as a
band of enever fails They could
always depend on Morgan and his
men showing the toughest kind of
fighting.
History tells us that when Nor
gan took up his march to Canadian
frontier with hiseompany of the yir-
ginia rifiemen, while passing
through Bucks county, he stopped a
week to rest his men at a tavern at
the junction of the north and west
branch of the Neshaminy. The
tavern was kept by a German named
Rungle, and while here Morgan 5
men amused themselves practicing
rifle shooting. We have no direct
evidence that Morgan on his route
to Canada, stopped at Durham,
which vas on his way, fo--sisit his
parents who were still residing here;
his father still being connected with
the iron works as the records 90 to
show. But this we consider but
natural as the General had now
attained the age of forty years, and
having been away from Durham
twenty-three years. Great changes
had been going on in Durham in
the meantime; two furnaces being
in operation now, the one a stoeko-
fen of small capacity, however; be-
sides the clearing of the timber,
from the surrounding country, and
last, but not the least, the removal
of the warlike Shawnee Indians
from this section to the Susquehan-
ma river.
Time and space do not allow us
to follow Morgan through the mo.
mentous years from 1777 to 1871.
During these years, however, Nor
gan was constantly at the head of
his regiment of rifemen, and during
the year 1871 he routed and captur-
ed detachment of British troops in
the western part OF South Carolina,
at the Cowpens. This event check
ed the operations of the British
troops in the Southern States. and
Morgan was thcnceforth known as
the hero of the Cowpens. This
sudden discontinue of the British by
General Movgan's rifiemen exasper-
ated Lod Cornwaliis, who was at
the time turning his attention 10
North Carolina. CORVALLIS now
suddenly changed his base of oper-
ations and went in pursuit of Nor
gan and his troops. General Greene
hearing of this movement, hastened
to the rescue of Morgan with rein.
forcements and came up with Con-
wallis at Guilford Court House.
where, on the 9Th of May, a severe
engagement took place. The Brit
ish lost in killed and wounded
about 500 men; the Americans about
400. On the 25th OF the same month,
another engagement took place, and
on June 9Th, another severe engage
ment followed resulting in great
loss of life to both British and
Americans. Greene and Morgan
having succeeded in driving the
British to the sea cost, now com
menced recuperating their forces
which had dwindled by these severe
engagements to very small army
of men. The Tories and British
sympathizers were compelled to
flee the country, and sorely harass-
cd people in that section began to
enjoy rest from war.
Before the close of this eventful
year, on the 10Th of October, 1871.
Lord CORVALLIS, with his army of
1000 men, was compelled to sur,
render. The war in the South was
now nearly ended; but the divisions
OF Greene and Morgan remained in
Virginia.
At the close of the Revolutionary
war, Gen. Morgan having now at
tanned his forty eighth year, retired
to his home in Virginia, and re-
mained here until his death, on July
9th, 1902, excepting two years which
he served in the Continental Con-
gross. His health failing him, he
retired from Congress before the
expiration Of his term. In person,
Morgan was stout and active, six
feet tall, not too much encumbered
with flesh, and was admirably fit
ted for the tolls and pomp of war.
No man valued less his life than
Morgan when duty called him to
meet his foe.
General Morgan, like thousands
of mortals when nearly worn ont by
the hand Of time, resorted for men
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