RUTLEDGE JOHN Letter Signed J Rutledge as Governor of South

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RUTLEDGE, JOHN. Letter Signed, "J: Rutledge" as Governor of South Carolina, to Thomas Burke as Governor of North Carolina, concerning a criminal who had been mistakenly released, and reporting on Nathanael Greene's movements and the progress of the war in Georgia. 2 pages. folio, with integral blank; repaired tear through tail end of signature, tissue repair at center fold partly obscuring docket, tissue repairs to horizontal folds with slight loss. Camden [SC], 3 September 1781

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This was written just five days before Nathanael Greene gave the British army's southern force a final blow at Eutaw Springs. "General Greene marched from this place on the 26th ulto for the Congarees, where the enemy's main body lay, but they precipitately abandoned that post last Tuesday & are gone towards Monk's Corner (about 30 miles from Charlestown) which is the only post they have in the country. They carried off a considerable number of their soldiers sick. . . . The Georgians . . . I think will be able to maintain their ground and perhaps compel the enemy to abandon Ebenezer (about 30 miles from Savannah) which is the only port except Savannah they have in Georgia."
Rutledge also discusses affairs in neighboring North Carolina: "I am sorry to hear that the Tories are rising & troublesome in your state, however, I suppose as the enemy have no regular force there worth mentioning, you will be able to subdue and crush such insurrection very speedily, and prevent a repetition of them." Burke would be captured by those troublesome Tories within the month. Provenance: Parke-Bernet sale, 6 December 1938, lot 213.