Souvenir Pin, 1881.

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Souvenir Pin, 1881.

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Souvenir pin issued for the 1881 Cowpens Centennial celebration held in Spartanburg, S.C., depicting a circular medal suspended under a bald eagle with wings spread. As the central event of the centennial celebration, the participants dedicated the Daniel Morgan monument in the Spartanburg town square. Charleston mayor William Ashmead Courtenay served as chairman of the principal committee, but any of the sponsoring organizations could have issued this pin. The medallion features a relief of sculptor John Quincy Adams Ward's statue of Daniel Morgan and is surmounted by an American eagle, just as the effigy of the national eagle was suspended in mid-air over the actual statue while the speakers were addressing the crowd in May 1881.

1 medal : ill. ; 6 cm.

University of South Carolina, System Library Service, University Libraries

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Morgan, Daniel, 1736-1802

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Morgan was a frontiersman who prospered as a Virginia farmer. His military career began when he served as Captain of one of the two Virginia rifle companies, and led Arnold's march to Quebec (1775). He rose to the rank of brigadier general in 1780, serving until July, 1781 when he retired to "Saratoga," his estate near Winchester, Va. He commanded militia troops during the Whiskey Insurrection of 1794, and was elected to the Fifth Congress as a Federalist representing Virginia. From ...

Cowpens Centennial Celebration (Spartanburg, S.C.)

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Cowpens Centennial Committee.

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