Last updated: June 26, 2022
Place
Race to the Dan River
NPS Photo / Mike Puckett
General Morgan's army secured a great victory on the field before you:
"Our loss was inconsiderable, not having more than twelve killed and sixty wounded. The enemy's loss was ten commissioned officers and upwards of 100 rank and file killed, two hundred wounded, and twenty-seven officers and more than five hundred privates, prisoners which fell into our hands, with two pieces of artillery, two standards, 800 stand of arms, one traveling forge, thirty-five wagons, seventy negroes and upwards of 100 dragoon horses, with all their musick." General Morgan to General Greene, January 19, 1781. Report on the Battle of Cowpens.
From here, the army moved into North Carolina where he dismissed the militia. The remainder of the army hurried to the Dan River in Virginia before the British could overtake and recapture the prisoners.
"Our loss was inconsiderable, not having more than twelve killed and sixty wounded. The enemy's loss was ten commissioned officers and upwards of 100 rank and file killed, two hundred wounded, and twenty-seven officers and more than five hundred privates, prisoners which fell into our hands, with two pieces of artillery, two standards, 800 stand of arms, one traveling forge, thirty-five wagons, seventy negroes and upwards of 100 dragoon horses, with all their musick." General Morgan to General Greene, January 19, 1781. Report on the Battle of Cowpens.
From here, the army moved into North Carolina where he dismissed the militia. The remainder of the army hurried to the Dan River in Virginia before the British could overtake and recapture the prisoners.