Race to the Dan River

After General Morgan's army won a major victory at the Battle of Cowpens, he reported light losses of twelve killed and sixty wounded, while the opposing force lost ten commissioned officers and more than one hundred rank and file killed, two hundred wounded, and twenty-nine commissioned officers and about five hundred privates taken prisoner, along with two pieces of artillery, two standards, eight hundred muskets, one traveling forge, thirty-five baggage wagons, seventy Negroes, more than one hundred dragoon horses, and all their music. From here, the army moved into North Carolina, dismissed the militia, and the remainder hurried to the Dan River in Virginia before the British could overtake them and recapture the prisoners.

Chesnee, South Carolina · United States