Morgan, Daniel (1736?-1802), served as an American officer in the Revolutionary War. He joined the Revolutionary forces in 1775 as a captain. He volunteered to go with Benedict Arnold on his expedition to Quebec and was taken prisoner there. On his release in 1776, he became a colonel in charge of a Virginia regiment. He organized a corps of sharpshooters in 1777 that helped General Horatio Gates in his battles against General John Burgoyne. Morgan resigned from the army in 1779. But he was recalled in 1780 and became a brigadier general. He commanded the American troops at the victory at Cowpens, South Carolina, in 1781.
After the war, he helped put down the Whiskey Rebellion in 1794 in western Pennsylvania (see Whiskey Rebellion ). He served as a Federalist from Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1797 to 1799. Morgan was probably born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He died on July 6, 1802.
