Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . bank of the Potomac. General Wash-ington knew some of these men personally, and passing along theline, shook the hand of every man in it. No other company render-ed more faithful service in the war for independece. Fifty yearspassed away and brought July 17, 1825—the fiftieth anniversaryof the departure from Morgans Spring. Then but four of thesevolunteer riflemen were alive. These were Major Henry Bedinger,of Berkeley county; his brother Michael George Bedinger, of BlueLicks, Kentucky; Peter Lauck, of Wi
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Biennial report of the Department of Archives and History of the State of West Virginia . bank of the Potomac. General Wash-ington knew some of these men personally, and passing along theline, shook the hand of every man in it. No other company render-ed more faithful service in the war for independece. Fifty yearspassed away and brought July 17, 1825—the fiftieth anniversaryof the departure from Morgans Spring. Then but four of thesevolunteer riflemen were alive. These were Major Henry Bedinger, of Berkeley county; his brother Michael George Bedinger, of BlueLicks, Kentucky; Peter Lauck, of Winchester, Virginia; and Wil-liam Hulse, of Wheeling, West Virginia. The Virginia-Maryland Rifle Regiment. (Source—Company Organization of the Regiment supplied by Hon. Brax-ton D. Gibson, of Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia.) Captain Hugh Stevenson, returned from Boston in the spring of1776, and together with Captain Moses Rawlings, organized theVirginia-Maryland Rifle Regiment, of which he became colonel, and Rawlings lieutenant-colonel. It was composed of Virginians. MAJOR-GENERAL DANIEL MORGAN, OF BERKELEY COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA. Of Virginia Rifle renown. Born in New Jersey, in 1737 ; came to what is nowBerkeley county, in 1755, and that year shared the perils of Braddocks Defeat, where he was wounded in the neck and cheek; engaged in agricultural pursuits, near Martinsburg, until about the beginning of the Revolution, when he purchaseda farm in what is now Frederick county, Virginia; entered the American serviceas Captain of a Company of Virginia Riflemen, in July, 1775 ; was in the expedi-tion against Quebec ; appointed Colonel of the 11th Virginia Regiment, being desig-nated as the 7th Virginia, September 14 177S, its ranks being largely filled withmen from the Eastern Pan-Handle of West Virginia. He was made a BrigadierGeneral of the Continental Army, October 13, 1780. Served everywhere to the endof the war; surrendered nowhere. He was appointed in 1794 to t