Battle of Cowpens: Primary & Contemporary Accounts - Softcover

Waters, Andrew

9781097210541: Battle of Cowpens: Primary & Contemporary Accounts

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ISBN 10: 1097210545 ISBN 13: 9781097210541

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

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The Battle of Cowpens is considered one of the most important victories of the American Revolution. On January 17, 1781, Continental General Daniel Morgan led his ragtag army of Continental regulars and local militia into battle on a South Carolina cow pasture against a superior force of British Army regulars commanded by Banastre Tarleton. Thanks to Morgan's innate understanding of American frontier psychology, and a unique battlefield formation that has been called the only "original tactical thought" of the American Revolution, Morgan defeated Tarleton in a victory many historians credit as leading indirectly to the British surrender at Yorktown. Battle of Cowpens: Primary & Contemporary Accounts collects in a single volume the correspondence and memoirs of the soldiers who participated in the battle. Included here are first-person accounts from both Daniel Morgan and Banastre Tarleton, along with William Seymour, Roderick Mackenzie and other soldiers who participated in the battle from both the British and American side. Also included are battle narratives written in the years directly following the American Revolution, along with correspondence from other principal actors of the “Southern Campaign,” including Nathanael Greene, Charles Cornwallis, and George Washington. With an introduction by the editor, Battle of Cowpens: Primary & Contemporary Accounts takes the reader onto the fields of this historic American victory with the soldiers who fought there and those who knew them. Andrew Waters is a writer, editor, and conservationist living in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He is the author The Quaker and the The Gamecock: Nathanael Greene, Thomas Sumter, and the Revolutionary War for the Soul of the South.

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