The Battle of Cowpens was fought on January 17, 1781 in modern day Cherokee County, two miles east of Spartanburg County and three miles south of the North Carolina state line.
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General Daniel Morgan – The Old Wagoner
The following biography of Daniel Morgan was published in the Spartanburg Herald-Journal on January 17, 1781 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Cowpens.
Daniel Morgan, the Old Wagoner, rose from lowly origins to become a supreme field soldier, frontiersman and one of the foremost generals of the American Revolution.