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University Microfilas International COPYRIGHTED by Robert Coplln Pugh 1951 THE COWPENS CAMPAIGN AND THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BY ROBERT COPLIN PUGH B.A., Eureka College, 1940 A.M., University of Illinois, 1941 THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGRKE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN HISTORY IN THE GRADUATE COLLEGE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. 1SB1 URBANA. ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS THE GRADUATE COLLEGE January 13, 1951 I HEREBY RECOMMEND THAT THE THESIS PREPARED UNDER MY SUPERVISION BY Robert G. Pugh The Cowpens Campaign And The American ENTITLED. Revolution BE ACCEPTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF Doctor of Philosophy in History ^1 ^—" In Charge of Thcsi Head of Department Recommendation concurred inf Committee on Final Examination! .£^Aa. t Required for doctor's degree but not for master's. M440 No written acknowledgment could adequately express the value of the writer's association with his adviser, Professor Raymond P. Stearns. ii ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The opinions and technical assistance of numerous persons, and the facilities of a variety of libraries have furnished materials for this study. The consideration of Dr. Frederick C. Dietz has oeen an appreciated element of the writer's graduate study at the University of Illinois. Professor Raymond C. Werner graciously supervised one period of the research presented here. Librarians and archivists almost without exception were considerate and helpful in making available the collected mate rials at their respective institutions. Deep obligation has been incurred by correspondence and personal contact with the staffs of the following: Duke University Library, Princeton University Library, the Reference Department of the University of Illinois Library, The Boston Public Library, The Illinois State Library, The National Archives, particularly the staff of the Map Section, the Reference Department, Division of Maps, of the Library of Congress, The North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, The Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and the Yorktown National Military Park. tor. Raleigh C. Taylor, Superintendent of the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, and Mr. W. F. Burton, State Archivist of North Carolina, have shown every courtesy in supplying detailed information from the archives which they supervise. ill A special acknowledgment should be ir.ade of the interest in this study of the local Revolutionary War enthusiasts with whom the writer talked during an examination of the locale of the Cowpens campaign. iv TABLE OF CONTENTS Page LIST OF MAPS vii INTRODUCTION 1 Chapter I. OPENING PHASES OF TEE COVvPENS CAMPAIGN 9 Desperate Military Situation in the Carollnas, August, 1780 Americans Regroup at Hillsborough The North Carolina Board of War American Dispositions after Camden Daniel Morgan Joins the Southern Army Cornwallis at Camden The Clinton-Cornwallis Controversy II. FAILURE OF THE FIRST ATTACK ON NORTH CAROLINA. . 57 The British Movement from Camden The British Occupy Charlotte The British Retreat from Charlotte Retreat and Pursuit from Charlotte Cornwallis Takes Post at Winnsborough III. THE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH CAROLINA—OCTOBER TO DECEMBER, 1780 109 The Americans Reoccupy the Borderland Raid and Counter-Raid in the Interval IV. NATHANAEL GREENE IN COMMAND 133 Greene Replaces Gates Strength of the Army at Charlotte Clinton's Diversion Greene Moves the Army from Charlotte Shift of Base to the Cheraws Lee Reinforces Greene on the Pedee V. FROM CHARLOTTE TO THE COWPENS 176 Morgan Detached from the Main Army The Detachment Moves from Charlotte ho Grindall's Ford Cornwallis Plans to Eliminate Morgan Tarleton Detached by Cornwallis—The British Move Against Morgan v
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