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Excerpt from The History of South Carolina in the Revolution, 1780-1783 Greene orders Sumter to collect his forces and join him - Receiving letter from Marion of capture of Fort Watson, replies, directing him also to move up and join him Sends similar order to Lee Watson eludes Marion, Lee, and Sumter, and reaches Rawdon - Greene contemplates abandoning the State Orders to Marion and Lee countermanded Sum ter criticised for not joining Lee - Greene's letter to Lee upon the subject, and Lee's reply condemning Sumter - Correspondence between Sumter and Greene, Showing Greene's approval of Sumter's course - Sumter blamed for Watson's success in joining Rawdon - Charge considered Anticipating an advance upon Rawdon's part, Greene falls back to Saw ney's Creek - Rawdon advances, but finding Greene's position too strong, retires Controversy as to Greene's purpose at this time to abandon the State - Davie's statement in regard to it Greene's cipher letter to Lee -his letter to Washington - No inconsistency between Davie's state ment and Greene's cipher letter to Lee - Different motives only attrib uted - Mr. Lee's views as to the disastrous consequences had Greene carried out his purpose. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.