The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-07-10
ONE Of the Most Brilliant .
Revolutionary Soldiers, VIII,
as Youth Was Tied to a Ire,
and Lashed Four Hundred
and Ni1ety-nfne Times by
Order of a British
Officer. - - y
BY RICHARD sp1LLANE.

OVGr IQlSeraDle IN western
Virginia the long wagon train OF Gen.
erdl Braddock was creeping one day
in 1855. The horses were faded, the
army was making little progress and
the heat was intense. An impatient
officer rode up to one of the transfers
q tall. raw-boned youth OF nineteen.
and, after roundly cursins teamsters
in general. accused him of some minor
offense. Maybe the youth had scant
respect for this particular officer or
little knowledge of the Difference due
!, to one who wore the uniform of the
king, for he merely fltrted his long
whip over the backs of his horses
land smiled contemptuously. The officer,
an fury, struck him with the fiat Of
This sword, and then. as the teamster
threw down his reins and started to
httaok him, summoned some soldiers
and put him under arrest. There
was o hasty trial and that evening
the youth was stripped and tod to o
tree He had been sentenced to re-
ceive 500 lashes One man w!elded the
rawhide whip until his arm tired. Then
another relieved him. Never did the
teamster whimper. Welts rose upon
his muscular back, and then came the
blood. Long before the ordeal ended
his back was all torn by the cruel
lash. When he was unbound he sank
to the earth from exhaustion. But 1t
was not long before he revived and
then. with grim smile, he went to
seek such rest as could come to his
sore. hurt body. Possibly it was balm
to his spirit If not to his wounds the
next day when the officer went to him
and apologized. He had learned the
1eamster was not the one guilty OF
the otfense that had been charged.
There must have been something OF
the gentleman in the British officer, as
ne never would have apologized tc
an humble teamster. Who he wa.
history does not tell. He went I,
death soon after, like nearly all tn,
British officers In that ill-starred ex-
the teamster sentenced to receive tn,
500 lashes history does tell about
for he became the General Daniel Nor
gan. who was one of the brilliant fig
nres In the War for Independence.
His Grim Joke.
Often around the camp fire in The
dark days of the Revolution he toll,
the story of that flashing, and he Away
closed his narrative with the grin
statement that the drummer miscount
ed. and King George was indebted tt
him one lash. Il know when the drum
mer did It," the general would say. u
was promised 500 and they only gave
me 4ss. II ever meet the King II
tell him about It,"
There was not much polish to Dan.
del Morgan. He was born in Hunter.
don county. New Jersey. He was OF
Welsh and Irish stock and his parents
were wretchedly poor. When he was
"a small child the family moved to Fred
erick county, Virginia. and there, il
that northern nook of the old State
he was reared. AS a day laborer he
earned a living before he was out OF
his teens. Then he became drovel
and a teamster. He drank and hi
gambled and he fought. But although
he drank heavily and always was will
ing to gamble with cards or dice, ane
although he engaged in dozens OF fis