GREENE, Nathanael. Autograph letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to General Robert Lawson (1748-1805), Head Quarters, Colonel’s Creek, 10 May 1781. 2 ½ pages, folio, seal hole, slight chipping along edges, small punctures at folds .
GREENE, Nathanael. Autograph letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to General Robert Lawson (1748-1805), Head Quarters, Colonel’s Creek, 10 May 1781. 2 ½ pages, folio, seal hole, slight chipping along edges, small punctures at folds . “WE ARE OPERATING AGAINST THE POSTS AT THE CONGAREES AND THE TROOPS UNDER YOUR COMMAND ARE EXCEEDINGLY NECESSARY” Amidst his successful spring campaign against Cornwallis and Rawdon, Greene tells Lawson he is “happy to hear you have a prospect of being accompanied by those gentlemen who were formerly under your command.” Lawson commanded a detachment of Virginia militia that proved welcome replacements to the Virginia and North Carolina militia, whose six-week enlistments had recently expired. “We are operating against the posts at the Congarees and the troops under your command are exceedingly necessary,” Greene continues. “You will please to send them forward by regiments of 400 each or battalions of 200 each as soon as you can form them with orders to the respective commanding officers to call on Mr. Norris the A. Quarter Master at Charlotte and take stores under their charge as he shall request and to move by the route which he is directed to point out. I have sent Capt. Read to collect the N. Carolina recruits at Salisbury and to establish an armoury to repair some musquets. Should you have any men under your command who can be of use in that necessary business, I beg you will furnish him with such numbers as he may request. After you have sent forward the first regiment you will if you think it practicable appoint some proper person to form the others and come on to camp…” Green’s lieutenants—Sumter, Francis Marion and Light-Horse Harry Lee, took the British posts at Orangeburg, Ft. Matte, and Ft. Granby, all between 11 and 15 May 1781. But like Washington in the earlier chapters of the war, Greene suffered reverses as often as defeats. After a recent reverse at Hobkirk Hill on 25 April, Greene famously said “We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.
GREENE, Nathanael. Autograph letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to General Robert Lawson (1748-1805), Head Quarters, Colonel’s Creek, 10 May 1781. 2 ½ pages, folio, seal hole, slight chipping along edges, small punctures at folds .
GREENE, Nathanael. Autograph letter signed (“Nath Greene”), to General Robert Lawson (1748-1805), Head Quarters, Colonel’s Creek, 10 May 1781. 2 ½ pages, folio, seal hole, slight chipping along edges, small punctures at folds . “WE ARE OPERATING AGAINST THE POSTS AT THE CONGAREES AND THE TROOPS UNDER YOUR COMMAND ARE EXCEEDINGLY NECESSARY” Amidst his successful spring campaign against Cornwallis and Rawdon, Greene tells Lawson he is “happy to hear you have a prospect of being accompanied by those gentlemen who were formerly under your command.” Lawson commanded a detachment of Virginia militia that proved welcome replacements to the Virginia and North Carolina militia, whose six-week enlistments had recently expired. “We are operating against the posts at the Congarees and the troops under your command are exceedingly necessary,” Greene continues. “You will please to send them forward by regiments of 400 each or battalions of 200 each as soon as you can form them with orders to the respective commanding officers to call on Mr. Norris the A. Quarter Master at Charlotte and take stores under their charge as he shall request and to move by the route which he is directed to point out. I have sent Capt. Read to collect the N. Carolina recruits at Salisbury and to establish an armoury to repair some musquets. Should you have any men under your command who can be of use in that necessary business, I beg you will furnish him with such numbers as he may request. After you have sent forward the first regiment you will if you think it practicable appoint some proper person to form the others and come on to camp…” Green’s lieutenants—Sumter, Francis Marion and Light-Horse Harry Lee, took the British posts at Orangeburg, Ft. Matte, and Ft. Granby, all between 11 and 15 May 1781. But like Washington in the earlier chapters of the war, Greene suffered reverses as often as defeats. After a recent reverse at Hobkirk Hill on 25 April, Greene famously said “We fight, get beat, rise and fight again.
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