It being impracticable to transport the artillery and baggage over the deep marshes adjoining the creek, Colonel Carrington with the North Carolina militia was directed to convey them to a place of safety, and to guard them till farther orders.

The army continued a few days in its new encampment, during which the troops subsisted on the scanty supplies furnished by the neighbourhood.

Greene was compelled at length, by the want of provisions, to relinquish this position.

About the same time he received intelligence which induced him to doubt the approach of Watson.

On which he ordered Lieutenant Colonel Carrington to rejoin him; and on the 24th, returned to the north side of the town, and again encamped on Hobkirk's hill, a ridge covered with uninterrupted wood through which the great Waxhaw road passes.