FOOTNOTES:
[687:A] The Rev. Dr. Hill told Mr. Grigsby that he had seen the marks of the flogging on Morgan's back.
[688:A] Cooper's History of North America, 106.
[689:A] To wit, that he ought by no means to have fired at the American, as he probably might have wished to speak to him and give him intelligence.
CHAPTER XCIV.
1779.
Condition of Affairs—Mason's Letter—Convention Troops removed to Charlottesville—Miscellaneous—Church Establishment abolished—Clergy and Churches—Suffolk burnt—D'Estaing's Siege of Savannah—Lincoln surrenders—Gates defeated at Camden—Sumpter defeated—Battle of King's Mountain—Colonel Campbell—Colonel Ferguson.
Washington looked upon the early part of 1779 as more fraught with danger than any preceding period of the war, not on account of the strength of the enemy, but owing to the spirit of selfish speculation, money-making, and stock-jobbing that prevailed, the depreciation of the paper currency, the States employing their ablest men at home, the idleness and dissipation of men in public trust, and the dissensions in congress. The demoralizing influences of war were making themselves manifest.[693:A]