Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....From The Papers Of General Nathanael Greene, Vol. 7, Page 456: March 21, 1781
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From The Papers Of General Nathanael Greene, Vol. 7, Page 456:
	“To Colonel Henry Lee, Jr, from headquarters, 21 March 1781. Has Lee’s 
letter of ‘yesterday.’ The army is marching toward ‘Magee’s [McGee’s] Ordinary’ 
about twelve miles from Bell’s Mill and should get a short way past 
Peasley’s ‘tonight.’ Because of a need to draw provisions, make cartridges, and 
attend to ‘several other matters,’ it will halt ‘earlier than common.’ NG wants 
intelligence of the ‘enemy’s situation’ and ‘whether they will move.’ Lee 
should have his command ready for battle ‘on the shortest notice,’ as NG 
intends ‘to fight the enemy again.’ In the meantime, Lee may ‘attempt anything 
which promises an advantage.’ Adds: ‘Lord Cornwalllis must be soundly beat 
before he will relinquish his hold.’ Printed in Lee, Memoirs, 1: 361-362.

	From footnote 1: NG did not give his location, but it appears from his 
letter to Lee of March 22, below, that he was near Thom’s Mill, on South 
Buffalo Creek, where the army camped the night of the 21st. (Custom House map 
of Guilford County, NC, [Jamestown, NC, 1980]).”

	From footnote 2: “Lord Cornwallis’s army had camped at Bell’s Mill, 
some sixteen miles south of Guilford Courthouse on 20 and 21 March…NG’s 
campsite at Thom’s Mill was about five miles south of Colonel John Peasley’s 
plantation.”


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