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- GLC#
- GLC02437.01063-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 20 July 1781
- Author/Creator
- Harrison, Charles, 1740-1796
- Title
- to Henry Knox
- Place Written
- South Carolina
- Pagination
- 2 p. : address : docket ; Height: 33 cm, Width: 20.4 cm
- Primary time period
- American Revolution, 1763-1783
- Sub-Era
- The War for Independence
Colonel Harrison writes to Knox from the "High hills of Santee," near the Santee River in South Carolina. Gives Knox an outline of events in the South "since the memorable battle of Guilford ... " Reports that Lord Cornwallis and Nathanael Greene have been "manouvering with each other, one marching North the other South..." Relates that Cornwallis has destroyed a large amount of tobacco. Encloses a list of posts that have been recently evacuated by the British (GLC02437.01319). Docketed by Samuel Shaw, Knox's aide-de-camp.
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