On the 5th of September, 1780, [General William] Davie was appointed by Governor Nash colonel commandant of cavalry in the western district of North Carolina, with instructions to raise a regiment. When he had collected only about seventy men, with that force and two small companies of riflemen commanded by Major George Davidson, he took post at Providence, twenty-five miles from the British camp.
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| Remnants Of Tree In Camden, South Carolina |
Cornwallis, after resting at Camden till the first week in September, had advanced to the Waxhaws, forty miles below Charlotte, while the fragments of the American army were slowly gathering at Hillsboro, two hundred miles distant. South Carolina was wholly subjugated and North Carolina had not recovered from the shock of Gates's defeat.
See earlier post from A biography of General Davie (1756 - 1820) which was found in the Magazine Of America here.
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