There is really no question as to the American numbers; yet a variety of reasons have conspired to cause them to be generally greatly overstated, even by American historians.

Even Phelan gives them fifteen hundred men, following the ordinary accounts.

At the time, many outsiders supposed that all the militia who were at the Cowpens fought in the battle; but this is not asserted by any one who knew the facts.

General J.Watts DePeyster, in the _Mag.

of Am.