The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . rn,on the road to Salisbury. This young man of only thirty-nine, in such gloomy dejection awaiting news of the daysconflict, whose fair and florid complexion has not entirely * Of his life there is no occasion to speak here. Ample materials for his biographyare now in the possession of the North Carolina Historical Commission, the archives of theUniversity of North Carolina, and the present writer. Suffice it to say that he died at theearly age of fifty (August 14, 1815), having served as Member of Congress, Member andSpeake
The North Carolina booklet : great events in North Carolina history . rn,on the road to Salisbury. This young man of only thirty-nine, in such gloomy dejection awaiting news of the daysconflict, whose fair and florid complexion has not entirely * Of his life there is no occasion to speak here. Ample materials for his biographyare now in the possession of the North Carolina Historical Commission, the archives of theUniversity of North Carolina, and the present writer. Suffice it to say that he died at theearly age of fifty (August 14, 1815), having served as Member of Congress, Member andSpeaker of the House of Commons, Commissioner on the N. C. Boundary Line, Gen-eral of Militia, first Comptroller of the Treasury during the administrations of Vlashington,who was his intimate friend, and Adams, and invited to serve in the same capacity byJefferson, his political opposite. For brief accounts of his life, cf. the Sprunt HistoricalMonograph, No. S (with original letters); Wheelers History of North Carolina, underRowan County; and Rumples Rowan A copy of Charles WillsonPeales portrait of General NathanielGreene. Owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Wm. BrentonGreene, Jr. ELIZABETH MAXWELL STEEL : PATEIOT, 79 yielded to the exposures of five campaigns, is the most bril-liant soldier, leader, and strategist, bar Washington, on theAmerican continent—the Tabins of America, GeneralISTathaniel Greene. It is the crucial hour of that remarkable strategic move-ment, the retreat of the Americans before the hotly pursuingCornwallis. The very fate of the South, and perhaps of theAmerican colonies, hangs in the balance. Anxiety lies heavyupon Greene, for his resources are at the very lowest by bringing out the militia can he venture to opposethe unresting pursuit of Cornwallis; and for that he needsready money to distribute among the soldiers, and a freshstore of hope and enthusiasm with which to fire his jadedsoldiers to renewed eftorts. On the preceding
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