On the Exergue: hoste ad saratogam in deditionem accepto, die 17 octobris, mdcclxxvii.
The gold medal of General Greene represents the head of that general, with this legend: nathanieli green, egregio duci, comitia americana.
On the reverse: A Victory treading under feet broken arms.
Legend: salus regionum australium.
On the Exergue: hostibus apud eutaw debellatis, die 8 septembris, mdcclxxxi.
The medal in gold for General Morgan, and those in silver for Colonels Howard and Washington, were to be indicative of the several circumstances which attended the victory at the Cowpens on the 17th of January, 1781, in conformity to a special resolution of Congress.
It may not be foreign to the purpose to add that dies have formerly been engraved under the direction of Dr. Franklin,[20] for striking the gold medal for General Wayne, and the silver medals for Colonels de Fleury and Stewart, emblematic of their gallant conduct in storming the works of Stony Point, sword in hand.
These are all the medals voted by Congress in the course of the war.[21]