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p. 370, lines 30–31 “Lieutenant-Colonel Brown”: Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Browne (d. 1825), a Georgia loyalist who had been tarred and feathered by whigs at the beginning of the war, was a bitter enemy to the American cause. At this time he was in command of the British garrison at Augusta. See Simms’s Joscelyn (1867) in which he is a central character. p. 370, lines 32–33 “Colonel Alured Clark”: In 1777 Clark (1745?– 1832) had been appointed muster-master-general of the Hessian troops in America. p. 370, line 36 “Brigadier-General Paterson”: General James Patterson was commandant of the garrison at Charleston from the time of its surrender in May 1780 until his ill health caused him to turn over the command to Balfour in September. p. 370, line 39 “Biggins’ Church”: A fortified brick building on the Cooper River east of Moncks Corner, Biggins’ Church guarded the access to Biggin and Wadboo bridges. The British garrison there was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Coates. p. 371, lines 30–31 “route to Lynch’s creek”: Lynch’s Creek flows southward about twenty miles east of Camden, then east to join the Greater Pee Dee River. pp. 373–410, Chapters XL–XLIII: Simms’s source for information on the Americans’ involvement in the Battle of Camden is primarily Otho Williams, whom he follows closely. For the British military arrangements he consults Tarleton. These firsthand accounts are supplemented with information given in Johnson’s Life of Greene and Lee’s Memoirs. p. 373, line 3 “arrived from Virginia”: In the early months of 1780 Gates had retired to his plantation in Virginia; orders to take command of the southern army reached him there. p. 373, line 6 “Deep River”: The Continental Army camp at Cox’s Mill was on Deep River. p. 373, line 20 “fifteenth day of August”: The junction actually took place on August 7, as Simms himself says later in The Partisan at p. 387, line 24. p. 374, line 3 “should be shared . . . with Arnold”: Major General Benedict Arnold (1741–1801) had served under Gates at Saratoga and had played a conspicuous role in both of the battles there. p. 374, line 17 “Lieutenant-Colonel Carrington”: Edward Carrington (1749–1810) of Virginia continued to serve in the South with Greene, taking part in the Battle of Hobkirk’s Hill in April 1781. EXPLANATORY NOTES 491 p. 374, line 19 “Colonel Armand”: Colonel Charles Trefin (Tuffin) Armand (1750–1793) was French. In 1777 he was commissioned a colonel in Pulaski’s Legion; when Pulaski was killed in October 1779 in Savannah, Armand succeeded him in command. p. 375, line 13 “want of horses”: White and William Washington had requested permission to add Gates’s authority to their recruiting of cavalry in North Carolina but Gates had ignored their petition, thus depriving himself of an effective cavalry at Camden. p. 375, lines 30–31 “route over Buffalo Ford”: When De Kalb found the Deep River area barren of provisions for his troops, he marched to Buffalo Ford in North Carolina, about fifty miles north-northeast of Cheraw, and encamped there for two weeks, where he was joined by Armand. This was in mid-July, before Gates joined him. p. 377, lines 4–5 “where it becomes the Yadkin”: At the North Carolina border. p. 377, lines 9–10 “Mecklenburg or Rowan counties”: Mecklenburg County, in which the town of Charlotte lies, is in North Carolina adjacent to the South Carolina border. To the northeast of Mecklenburg County, Rowan County includes Salisbury within its borders. Of the whig sentiments of the people of Mecklenburg and Rowan Counties, Tarleton comments: “It was evident, and it had been frequently mentioned to the King’s officers, that the counties of Mecklenburg and Rohan were more hostile to England than any others in America. The vigilance and animosity of these surrounding districts checked the exertions of the well affected, and totally destroyed all communication between the King’s troops and the loyalists in the other parts of the province” (160). p. 377, line 19 “Charlotte”: In North Carolina, about seventy miles from Camden. Williams does not specify a particular town in his Narrative, but says merely “at a secure place” (Johnson, Greene, 2:487). p. 378, line 12 “No conference”: Williams writes, “Whether any conference took place or not, the writer don’t know” (Johnson, Greene, 2:487). p. 379, line 12 “A few hours after”: Simms differs...

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