Daniel Morgan was born in 1763 in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was born into a Welsh family. Historians do not know much about his early life because he never talked about it much. This lead people to believe it was a painful and argumentative life. Morgan attended school for the average amount of time but went to Pennsylvania after a serious argument with his father. He worked at many odd jobs while he was there.

Dan Morgan joined the American army and was all for independence. Morgan had no love for the British. When he was offered the job of commanding a company of riflemen, he gladly accepted. A rifleman was a soldier who, instead of carrying a smooth bore musket, carried a rifle. The rifle had grooves in the barrel to spin the projectile thus making its velocity and accuracy much greater than that of the musket. I could not find any specific information on why he despised the British; I just know that he did.

Morgan’s first experience in the war was commanding his own rifle company. Morgan raised 96 men in ten days. Morgan’s company was sent out from Winchester July fifteenth, 1775 and arrived in New York on the sixth of August the same year. He was sent to New York for back up.

Daniel was shy as a young boy. He fought with his parents frequently;

they obviously did not get along well. He was a hard worker and did not let people down because of his good attitude.

In Canada, when Arnold was wounded, Morgan took command and was later forced to surrender. He was captured and later punched a British officer for which he received 400 lashes.