e recovery of Georgia.

[Footnote 8: In the judicious orders given to Wayne, Greene
endeavoured to impress on that officer the importance of a
course of conduct, always observed by himself, which might
tend to conciliate parties. "Try," says he, "by every means
in your power, to soften the malignity and dreadful
resentments subsisting between the Whig and Tory; and put a
stop as much as possible to that cruel custom of putting men
to death after they surrender themselves prisoners. The
practice of plundering you will endeavour to check as much
as possible; and point out to the militia the ruinous
consequences of the policy. Let your discipline be as
regular and as rigid as the nature and constitution of your
troops will admit."--2 _Johnson_, 277.]

General Greene crossed the Edisto and took post six miles in advance
of Jacksonborough, on the road leading to Charleston, for the purpose
of covering the state legislature, which assembled at that place on
the eighteenth. Thus was civil government re-established in South
Carolina, and that state restored to the union.

It is impossible to review this active and interesting campaign
without feeling that much is due to General Greene; and that he amply
justified the favourable opinion of the Commander-in-chief. He found
the country completely conquered, and defended by a regular army
estimated at four thousand men. The inhabitants were so divided, as to
leave it doubtful to which side the majority was attached. At no time
did the effective continental force which he could bring into the
field, amount to two thousand men; and of these a considerable part
were raw troops. Yet he could keep the field without being forced into
action; and by a course of judicious movement, and of hardy
enterprise, in which invincible constancy was displayed, and in which
courage was happily tempered with prudence, he recovered the southern
states. It is a singular fact, well worthy of notice, which marks
impressively the soundness of his judgment, that although he never
gained a decisive victory, he obtained, to a considerable extent, even
when defeated, the object for which he fought.

A just portion of the praise deserved by these achievements, is
unquestionably due to the troops he commanded. These real patriots
bore every hardship and privation[9] with a degree of patience and
constancy which can not be sufficiently admired.