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This volume continues the story of the American Revolution in the
South. Many of the more than 800 documents vividly confirm
Nathanael Greene's characterization of the ferocity of the war and
the miseries it produced, and they highlight his efforts to end
lawlessness and restore the authority of civil government. As the
volume opens, Greene has broken off pursuit of a retreating Lord
Cornwallis in North Carolina and enters South Carolina. Despite
setbacks at Hobkirk's Hill and Ninety Six, Greene's troops regained
control of most of South Carolina and Georgia within three months.
Letters from Greene's subordinates trace the course of the war
farther north in North Carolina and Virginia during the days
leading to the climactic siege at Yorktown.
The seventh volume of the Papers of Nathanael Greene documents a
crucial period of the American Revolution in the South. In the
first months of 1781, Nathanael Greene, who had taken command of
the Southern Army only weeks before, initiated the campaign that
would ultimately free the South from British occupation. These
months saw the pivotal engagement at Cowpens, the 'Race to the Dan'
- in which Greene's army marched the breadth of North Carolina with
the British in close pursuit - and the climactic battle of Guilford
Court House. In March 1781, Greene decided to break off his pursuit
of Lord Cornwallis's force in North Carolina and instead march into
South Carolina to challenge British control there. This decision,
among others made during this critical period, established Greene's
reputation as a brilliant military strategist. The documents in
this volume provide new insight into how and why Greene chose as he
did.
This volume continues the best and most detailed study of the
Revolutionary War in the South. The period covered here, 1 October
1782 through 21 May 1783, was a time of both triumph and travail
for General Nathanael Greene. His greatest moment of triumph took
place on 14 December, when the British evacuated Charleston, South
Carolina. This event represented the culmination of Greene's
campaign in the South, and he was hailed as a conquering hero. But
the departure of the British also brought about a marked
deterioration in relations between Greene and the government of
South Carolina. Through a series of disputes with the state
government, many of which are detailed in the 780 documents
gathered here, Greene became increasingly convinced that Congress
would be unable to maintain its authority in the South. While this
concern proved to be unfounded, Greene did sense the states' rights
impulse that would later come to define the region politically.
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island
Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search
for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. The papers - letters and documents
received by Greene as well as those sent by him - are carefully
edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in
full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene,
who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as
commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is
generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His
papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well
as on the man.
This new volume of The Papers of General Nathanael Greene continues
the best and most-detailed study of the Revolutionary War in the
South. More than 800 letters and orders chart the progress of
Greene's army in South Carolina, from the battle of Eutaw Springs -
the bloodiest battle of the Revolution - to the British pullback to
Charleston. In July 1781, the British controlled large parts of
South Carolina and Georgia, had a post in North Carolina, and
maintained an army in Virginia. By early December, they held only
the areas around Charleston and Savannah. The ability of Greene's
beleaguered army to force this British retreat is the focus of this
volume, which also documents Greene's attempts to rebuild the lower
south's political and social fabric. In addition, this volume
provides information on the siege of Yorktown, for although Greene
was not directly involved, he received numerous reports from those
on the scene in Virginia.
This volume continues the best and most detailed study of the
Revolutionary War in the South. More than 780 documents illuminate
a vital but largely overlooked phase of the war - the lengthy and
turbulent period from allied victory at Yorktown until the final
achievement of peace and American independence. By December of
1781, General Nathanael Greene's army had forced the British into
retreating to Charleston, South Carolina. But in the lower South,
in particular, the war was far from over. Greene's position as
commander of the Southern Department involved him in nearly every
aspect of the military, political, and economic life of the region
during the last years of the war. Thus, his papers provide an
overview not only of the war, but also of politics, the economy,
and life in the South. In addition, the documents in this volume
show Greene in a different light: the master strategist of earlier
volumes has now given way to Greene as innovative military leader
and politically astute general.
These volumes, published in conjunction with the Rhode Island
Historical Society, represent the result of an exhaustive search
for documents relating to the life and career of Revolutionary War
general Nathanael Greene. The papers - letters and documents
received by Greene as well as those sent by him - are carefully
edited and fully annotated. The editors reproduce many items in
full but abstract papers that are of lesser significance. Greene,
who served as quartermaster general of the army and later as
commander of the forces fighting in the southern theater, is
generally considered the ablest of Washington's generals. His
papers are a vital source of information on the war itself as well
as on the man.
This thirteenth and final volume of the series devoted to the
papers of General Nathanael Greene includes correspondence to and
from Greene from the end of the Revolutionary War up to his death
in June 1786. It concludes with an epilogue and an addendum of
forty-six documents that have come to light since the volumes in
which they would have appeared have been published. The documents
presented here trace the dismissal of the Southern Army and details
of salutes offered to Greene by the citizens of Richmond,
Fredericksburg, and Alexandria, Virginia, and Annapolis and
Baltimore, Maryland, as he traveled back home. Greene spent three
years after the close of the war attempting to settle his wartime
debts, many of which were incurred as a result of guarantees he
made on behalf of army contractors. He sought assistance in New
York, Philadelphia, and Charleston; from the president of Congress;
and from Dutch investors, but was declined at every turn. Within a
year of relocating his family to Mulberry Grove plantation, near
Savannah, after finally reaching an agreement with one of his
principal creditors, Greene became ill. He died a week later, at
the age of forty-three.
This volume continues the best and most detailed study of the
Revolutionary War in the South. In more than 1,000 documents, it
traces the British evacuation of Georgia as well as General
Nathanael Greene's ongoing efforts to force a British withdrawal
from South Carolina. Despite evidence that the British were
planning to pull out of the lower South, Greene twice turned down
British proposals for an end to hostilities in the region, and the
fighting and killing continued. Mistrusting his enemy's motives,
Greene reasoned that only a militarily strong and politically
unified America could convince Britain to abandon entirely its
campaign to subdue the new nation. Greene's efforts to bolster his
forces were thwarted, however, by an increasing war-weariness among
the American people, a lack of supplies, and an outbreak of
malaria. Despite these problems, Greene and his army enjoyed some
success with the British withdrawal from Savannah and a decrease in
the threat posed by Indians on the southern frontier.
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