1. Christopher Ward, The War of the Revolution, 2 vols. (New York, 1952), Vol. II, 748. Greene, since early in the war, had been Washington's right arm. In the opinion of some military historians, Greene, both as a strategist and as a tactician, was Washington's superior.

2. The army, at this time, had a paper strength of 90 cavalrymen, 60 artillerists, and 2,307 infantrymen. Of the infantry, 949 were Continentals. Ibid., 749.

3. Ibid., 749-751.

4. Ibid. Daniel Morgan was born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey, in 1736. Having moved to Virginia in 1753, he was commissioned a captain of Virginia riflemen in June, 1775. He participated in the expedition against Quebec, where he was captured. Released in 1776, he was commissioned colonel. In 1777 he was at Saratoga. He resigned from the army in 1779, but he returned to the service after the battle of Camden, and soon thereafter he was made a brigadier general. Colonel Washington was the son of Bailey Washington of Virginia.

5. Theodorus Bailey Myers, Cowpens Papers, Being a Correspondence of General Morgan and Prominent Actors (Charleston, 1881), 9-10.

6. Ward, War of the Revolution, II, 752.

7. H.L. Landers, Historical Statements Concerning Battle of Kings Mountain and Battle of Cowpens, South Carolina. 70th Congress, 1st Session, House Document No. 328 (Washington, 1928), 59; David Schenck, North Carolina, 1780-81, Being a History of the Invasion of the Carolinas by the British Army under Lord Cornwallis (Raleigh, 1889), 200. Biggin's Ferry was just below the mouth of the South Fork.

8. Schenck, North Carolina, 200.

9. Myers, Cowpens Papers, 30-31. General Davidson was from Rowan County. Major McDowell of "Quaker Meadows" had reported to Morgan with 190 riflemen from Burke County. Schenck, North Carolina, 200.

10. Landers, Historical Statements, 59-60. Fair Forest was about 20 miles south of Grindall's Ford.

11. John W. Fortescue, A History of the British Army, 13 vols. (London, 1902), Vol. III, 356-357. Tarleton was born in Liverpool on August 21, 1754, and was not yet 27 years old. His appearance is familiar to collectors of history in the large mezzotint engraving of his portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds, representing him as a dashing cavalry officer with his foot raised on a cannon while adjusting his boot top, a position severely criticized, as exposing "the best part of his person, by Colonel de Chamilly, a partisan officer with whom he quarreled on technical matters. Myers, Cowpens Papers, 29. The British Legion numbered, at this stage of the conflict, 550 effectives, part dragoons and part mounted infantry, many of whom had been in Gates' army before its rout at Camden. They had been talked into joining the Legion by promises of food, arms, and clothing. Kenneth L. Roberts, The Battle of Cowpens: The Great Morale Builder, (New York, 1958), 59.

12. Banastre Tarleton, A History of the Campaign of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America, (Dublin, 1786), 212-213. The 7th Fusiliers had been slated to garrison Ninety-Six.

13. Ibid., 213; Henry Lee, Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department of the United States (New York, 1869), 225.