It is all over!” While there could be little doubt how the war would end, it was not, in fact, over. The British held Savannah and Charleston, along with New York. Bitterness and hatred still ruled the southern backcountry, where no diplomats in powdered wigs and fine clothes could broker peace between Tories and patriots. Rumors of British reinforcements on their way to the South occasionally made their way to Greene’s headquarters, and though they proved false, they could not be discounted. The war was not over. For some, it would never be over, for they would bear scars, mental as well as physical, for the rest of their days. Greene was particularly concerned about the hundreds of wounded soldiers in his camp, some of them suffering terribly. The autumn of 1781 brought not only the joyous news of Cornwallis’s surrender but disease as well. Even in their relative repose in the High Hills of the Santee, Greene’s men, wounded and healthy alike, fell ill with dysentry and malaria, while those who had been carried off the field at Eutaw Springs literally rotted away for lack of proper medicine and care.
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