Direct References to the Crossing

• he sent "Lieutenant Colonel Carrington, his quartermaster, to explore and map the Dan River, and Edward Stevens, Major General of Virginia Militia, and General Kosciuszko to the Yadkin and the Catawba for the same purpose. They were also to collect or build flatboats to be carried on wheels or in wagons from one river to another". (Ward, The War of the Revolution) Consequently Greene was able, after January 23, to give orders to set things in motion. He dispatched Carrington back to the Dan River to assemble enough boats on the south side to transport his whole force. Battles of the Revolutionary War 1775-1781, W. J. Wood, 1990 • "the prisoners were got over the Yadkin, and on their march for Dan river, which they likewise passed, and on the 14th of this month had reached Bedford Court-house, in the State of Virginia." (February 28, 1781 The Pennsylvania Gazette - Intelligence from the Southward) LINK • "Crossing the Yadkin as he had done the Catawba, he again halts, and cooly surveys his pursuer. Thus he rests quietly, until again warned by the falling of the waters; and pushing forward for the Dan, again to practice the same game; beguile his enemy yet deeper into the heart of the country, where, in the event of a battle, his resources must be cut off, and where a defeat, or disaster of any kind, would leave him hopeless of help, and at the mercy of the Americans." (The life of Nathanael Greene, major-general in the army of the revolution. Ed. by W. Gilmore Simms - First edition, New York, 1849) LINK • "The people of Halifax County received us with the affection of brothers, mingled with admiration of the brave devotion to country just exhibited." - Light Horse Harry Lee - • • • • • • • • • •