He was deprived of his command, and Washington appointed to succeed him General Nathanael Greene.
In spite of the headlong flight of Gates the disaster at Camden had only a transient effect.

The war developed a number of irregular leaders on the American side who were never beaten beyond recovery, no matter what might be the reverses of the day.

The two most famous are Francis Marion and Thomas Sumter.

Marion, descended from a family of Huguenot exiles, was slight in frame and courteous in manner; Sumter, tall, powerful, and rough, was the vigorous frontiersman in type.

Threatened men live long: Sumter died in 1832, at the age of ninety-six, the last surviving general of the Revolution.