december nathanael courthouse

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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: Vol. VII: 26 December 1780-29 March 1781 (Papers of General Nathanael ...
Nathanael Greene

The University of North Carolina Press, 1994

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 ...

The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign

2 reviews
Burke Davis

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002

Interesting, strange, but ultimately unsatisfying
If you are looking for a detailed account of the Cowpens and/or Guilford Courthouse battles, look elsewhere (I much prefer Babit's "A Devil of a Whipping" for Cowpens). But there is a fair amount of detail of the marching and skirmishing between the two. Unfortunately, the few maps do little to support the text. The Guilford Courthouse map is cramped by trying to show the entire battle on one ...