Daniel Murphy

Daniel Murphy is a classically trained fencer, avid equestrian, and living historian. He has served as cavalry coordinator for several National Park Service films. His articles have appeared in Military Heritage, America's Civil War, and The Journal of the United States Cavalry Association. He is author of William Washington, American Light Dragoon: A Continental Cavalry Leader in the War of Independence (Westholme, 2014), about which Battle of Cowpens expert Lawrence Babits wrote, "Murphy has...See more

Daniel Murphy is a classically trained fencer, avid equestrian, and living historian. He has served as cavalry coordinator for several National Park Service films. His articles have appeared in Military Heritage, America's Civil War, and The Journal of the United States Cavalry Association. He is author of William Washington, American Light Dragoon: A Continental Cavalry Leader in the War of Independence (Westholme, 2014), about which Battle of Cowpens expert Lawrence Babits wrote, "Murphy has combined all currently known written sources on William Washington with his vast experience as a mounted reenactor to produce a study of Nathanael Greene's cavalryman. This is a very good read." Murphy lives in Conyers, Georgia, twenty miles east of Atlanta. See less