ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.
GENERAL GREENE TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON.
| Camp Round O, South Carolina, | |
| December 13th, 1781. |
Dear Sir,
Your favor of the 22d of October came to hand a day or two since.
I shall be happy to communicate anything from this quarter, that may be useful to you, or to our affairs abroad, and I have the pleasure to inform you, that we have complete possession of all the Southern States, Charleston and Savannah excepted.
Civil government is established in Georgia, and the Assembly of South Carolina will set the 1st of next month, at Camden. We are making preparations for the siege of Charleston, and are not altogether without hopes of obliging the enemy to abandon the place, even if our good ally should not be able to co-operate with us. The tyrant of Syracuse was never more odious than the British army in this country. Even the slaves rejoice, and feel a kind of freedom from oppression, in the return of their masters.
I beg leave to congratulate you upon our late glorious success in Virginia, and upon your own appointment of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
I have the honor to be, &c.
NATHANIEL GREENE.