1. Tarleton, Campaigns, 214.

2. Lieutenant Mackenzie says the column moved out at 2 a.m.

3. Ibid., 214-215; Bass, Green Dragoon, 153.

4. Tarleton, Campaigns, 215.

5. Ibid., 221.

6. Ibid., 215-216. The battalion of light infantry had a well-deserved reputation. The company of the 16th Regiment had served in General Augustine Prevost's army, while those of the 71st Regiment were "distinguished" under General William Grey at the surprise of General Anthony Wayne in Pennsylvania, "of Baylor's dragoons in New Jersey, at Briar Creek in Georgia, at the capture and subsequent defense of Savannah, at the battle near Camden." Although only recently organized, the light company of the Prince of Wales' American Regiment had made a reputation under General William Tryon at Danbury. Roderick Mackenzie, Strictures on Lt. Col. Tarleton's History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 in the Southern Provinces of North America" (London, 1785), 11-2-113.

7. Tarleton, Campaigns, 215-216. Major General Sir Henry Clinton in the summer of 1778. had organized a mixed corps of infantry and cavalry of men recruited in America. One of these units was designated the British Legion to which Lord William Schaw Cathcart was named colonel. Tarleton was promoted to lieutenant colonel and joined the Legion, as its second in command. Cathcart was soon reassigned, and when the Legion sailed for the South in December, 1779, Tarleton was in charge. While in the South, the infantry of the British Legion had seen hard service, and in battle they had heretofore behaved well. Mackenzie, Strictures, 113.

8. Tarleton, Campaigns, 215-216. The 7th Fusiliers had served with credit from the beginning of the war. "Under General Clarke they had attained the summit of military discipline." Mackenzie, Strictures, 110.

9. Tarleton, Campaigns, 215-216. The 1st Battalion, 71st Regiment had landed in Georgia in 1778, and had made a reputation at Stone Ferry, the battle of Camden, and the sieges of Charleston and Savannah. Mackenzie, Strictures, 111.

10. MacKenzie, Strictures, 99-100; David Ramsey, The History of the American Revolution (London, 1811), 233.

11. Graham, Morgan, 299; Rankin "Cowpens: Prelude to Yorktown," 356.

12. Thomas Anderson, "Journal of Lt. Thomas Anderson of the Delaware Regiment," Historical Magazine, 2d Series (April, 1867), 209.

13. Graham, Morgan, 299-300.

14. "Memoir of Thomas Young," 88.

15. Tarleton, Campaigns, 216. The advance was made in double rank at open files.

16. Graham, Morgan, 300.

17. Private James Collins, Autobiography of a Revolutionary Soldier, ed. John M. Roberts (Clinton, La., 859), 57.

18. Roberts, Battle of Cowpens, 89-90.

19. Collins, Autobiography, 57; Graham, Morgan, 301; Tarleton, Campaigns, 216; Mackenzie, Strictures, 98.

20. Collins, Autobiography, 57; "D. Wallace's History of Union...," Draper Papers, 13VV 188-189, State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

21. Tarleton, Campaigns, 216-217; Fortescue, History of the British Army, III, 361.

22. Graham, Morgan, 301-302.

23. John E. Howard's Account in The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants, edited by Henry 5, Commager and Richard B. Morris, 2 vols. (Indianapolis, 1958.), Vol. II, 1156-1157; Graham, Morgan, 303.

24. Graham, Morgan, 303.

25. Ibid., 303-305; Collins, Autobiography, 59.

29. Graham, Morgan, 304-305. The hand-full of Royal Artillerists were bayoneted, sabered, or shot to the last man. Roberts, Battle of Cowpens, 96.

30. Tarleton, Campaigns, 217-218.

31. Graham, Morgan; 305; Bass, Green Dragoon, 158.

32. Bass, Green Dragoon, 158.

33. Johnson, Greene, I, 382; Graham, Morgan, 306.

34. Mackenzie, Strictures, 102.

35. Graham, Morgan, 307; Tarleton, Campaigns, 217-218.

36. Tarleton, Campaigns, 222.

37. Mackenzie, Strictures, 103.

38. Graham, Morgan, 307-308.

39. Morgan to Greene, Jan. 19, 1781, in Graham's Morgan, 310. Out of nine officers present, the 7th Fusiliers had two killed (Captain Helyar and Lieutenant Marihal), and three wounded (Major Newmarsh, and Lieutenants Harling and L'Estrange). The 1st Battalion, 71st Infantry had entered the fight with 16 officers, and it had lost two killed (Lieutenants McLeod and Chisholm) and seven wounded (Lieutenants Grant, Mackintosh, Flint, Mackenzie, Sinclair, Forbes, and Macleod). Mackenzie, Strictures, 111.

40. Graham, Morgan, 309-309. The 3 pounders had an interesting background. They had been taken from the British at Saratoga by Morgan and retaken from General Sumter by Tarleton at Blackstocks. The colors captured were those of 71st and British Legion. According to British army custom, these two units were required to henceforth wear their tunics without facings. Rankin, "Cowpens, Prelude to Yorktown" 366.

41. Landers, Historical Statements, 73.

42. Ibid., Ward, War of the Revolution, II, 762.

43. Tarleton, Campaigns, 221.

44. Mackenzie, Strictures, 115.

45. Ibid., 99-100.

46. Ibid., 117.

47. Landers, Historical Statements, 74-75.