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Title: Outing
Year: 1885 (1880s)
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Subjects: Leisure Sports Travel
Publisher: (New York : Outing Pub. Co.)
Contributing Library: Tisch Library
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whenGreene superseded Gates he confirmedMorgans appointment. In the meantimeMorgan, chiefly through the efforts of thesagacious Jefferson, had been made by Con-gress a brigadier-general of Continentaltroops. It was the mere sorrowful wreck of anarmy that fell to the command of Greene.Demoralized and miserably equipped asthey were, the able general at once be-gan the work of reorganizing the men forthe great work they afterward achieved.Greene fixed his headquarters in a fruit-ful valley in South Carolina, while Mor-gan with his command, the most effectiveof the troops as a decoy for Cornwallis,moved into the wasted country betweenthe Black and Catawba rivers. Here hesuppressed the Tory risings and restored or-der. Tarleton, the ablest and most savageand successful of Cornwalliss brutal lieu-tenants, was at once in motion to destroyMorgan. Tarleton had with him twelvehundred men, the best of the British force,nearly a quarter of Cornwalliss army. Hewas superior to Morgan in numbers by
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Through the wilderness to Quebec, 1776—Morgans men in the race. Painting by Stanley M. Arthurs. General Daniel Morgan 233

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