"This book is about one of the more important and exciting engagements that took place during the course of the American Revolution, and it is populated by many of those same unknown characters who gave years of their lives over to hardship, danger, and constant toil to see the issue through to its final conclusion. The story is most principally about Daniel Morgan, a rough and tumble son of the American frontier who through hard work, intelligence, and strength of character rose through life to become a brigadier general, a man of wealth, and a United States Congressman, but many more lives than Daniel Morgan's shine through its pages. ... In that sense, then, this is a book not just about war or revolution, but rather about the emergence of a new way of life and a new way of conceiving ourselves as human beings."--Preface.