Let your discipline be as regular and as rigid as the nature and constitution of your troops will admit."-- 2 _Johnson_, 277.] General Greene crossed the Edisto and took post six miles in advance of Jacksonborough, on the road leading to Charleston, for the purpose of covering the state legislature, which assembled at that place on the eighteenth.

Thus was civil government re-established in South Carolina, and that state restored to the union.
It is impossible to review this active and interesting campaign without feeling that much is due to General Greene; and that he amply justified the favourable opinion of the Commander-in-chief.

He found the country completely conquered, and defended by a regular army estimated at four thousand men.

The inhabitants were so divided, as to leave it doubtful to which side the majority was attached.

At no time did the effective continental force which he could bring into the field, amount to two thousand men; and of these a considerable part were raw troops.