Memorial Volume of the Guilford Battle Ground Company

Excerpt from A Memorial Volume of the Guilford Battle Ground Company: Organized May 6, 1887, at Greensboro, N. C.; With Numerous Beautiful Illustrations A fine crop had been raised in the year 1780, and the plentifulness of provisions was one of the reasons that induced General Greene to adhere to this section of the State. The battle of Guilford Court House was fought on Thursday, the 15th day of March, 1781. Lord Cornwallis, fresh from the conquest of South Carolina and Georgia, commanded the British Army and Major General Nathanael Greene commanded the American forces. After a great deal of manoeuvring, marching and countermarching, General Greene reached Guilford Court House on the day before the battle and Cornwallis, who was on Deep river, some fifteen miles distant to the West, recognizing the forward movement of Greene as a challenge to battle, immediately advanced to accept it. The American Army consisted, as near as can be ascertained, of about troops specified as follows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.