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"Downright Fighting": The Story of Cowpens

Chapter 44: Transcriber’s Notes
By Thomas J. Fleming
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The author recounts the events leading to and during a decisive Revolutionary War engagement in upcountry South Carolina, describing how an outnumbered mixed force used terrain and unconventional tactics to defeat a veteran British corps led by a fierce cavalry commander. The narrative situates the clash within the broader Southern campaign, examines strategic maneuvers by American and British leaders, and traces consequences that helped shift momentum toward eventual victory. Supplemental sections provide battlefield interpretation, related campaign sites, and references for further reading.

Credits

4-5, 8-9: William A. Bake
10-11: “The Battle of Cowpens,” by Francis Kimmelmeyer, 1809. Yale University.
13: Portrait of Gates by Charles Willson Peale. Collection of Independence National Historical Park.
Cornwallis by Thomas Gainsborough, National Portrait Gallery, London.
14: Daniel Morgan by CWPeale. Independence NHP.
18: Nathanael Greene by CWPeale. Independence NHP.
19: Thomas Sumter by Rembrandt Peale. Independence NHP.
20: Francis Marion, a detail from a painting by John B. White. Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.
21: Elijah Clarke, Georgia Department of Archives and History.
23: New-York Historical Society.
24: Banastre Tarleton by Sir Joshua Reynolds. National Portrait Gallery, London.
25: Mary Robinson, an engraving after a painting by Reynolds. Collection of Sir John Tilney. Tarleton birthplace. Liverpool City Libraries.
26: Benjamin Lincoln by CW Peale. Independence NHP.
27: Library of Congress
28: Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Brown University Library.
29: Library of Congress
30: Map from Francis V. Greene, General Greene (1893).
31: Alexander Leslie by Gainsborough. Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh.
33: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
36-37 (except pistols), 47 (fife), 56-57: The George C. Neumann Collection, a gift of the Sun Company to Valley Forge National Historical Park, 1978.
Dragoon pistol: The Smithsonian Institution.
Officer’s pistol: Fort Pitt Museum.
48-49: all by Don Troiani except the 17th Light Dragoon, which is by Gerry Embleton.
52-53: Maryland Historical Society
54: Musée du L’Empéri, Bouche du Rhône, France.
58-59: Don Troiani.
63: CW Peale. Independence NHP.
64-65: Don Troiani.
69: Don Troiani.
74-75: Artist, Richard Schlecht. Courtesy, National Geographic Society.
83: Maryland Historical Society
86-87, 89, 93 (Ninety Six), William A. Bake.

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Transcriber’s Notes

  • Retained publication information from the printed edition: this eBook is public-domain in the country of publication.
  • Relocated all image captions to be immediately under the corresponding images, removing redundant references like ”preceding page”.
  • Silently corrected a few palpable typos.
  • In the text versions only, text in italics is delimited by _underscores_.