Camden, SC
2 first-person accounts from the Revolutionary era.
Historical Voices
Baron Johann de Kalb
Eleven Times
The Maryland and Delaware Continentals did not know the left had broken. The battle had been going on for perhaps fifteen minutes when the British infantry began appearing on their flank. De Kalb was ...
Modern Voices
The Shadow of an Army
When Nathanael Greene arrived at Charlotte in December 1780 to take command of the Southern Army, he wrote to Washington that he had found "but the shadow of an army." That's a figure of speech, but i...