The distinguished soldier under whose eye the Virginian operated did full justice to his courage and capacity.

"I believe," wrote Greene, "that few officers, either in Europe or America, are held in so high a position of admiration as you are.

Everybody knows I have the highest opinion of you as an officer, and you know I love you as a friend.

No man, in the progress of the campaign, had equal merit with yourself." The officer who wrote those lines was not a courtier nor a diplomatist, but a blunt and honest soldier who had seen Lee's bearing in the most arduous straits, and was capable of appreciating military ability.

Add Washington's expression of his "love and thanks," in a letter written in 1789, and the light in which he was regarded by his contemporaries will be understood.
His "Memoirs of the War in the Southern Department" is a valuable military history and a very interesting book.