Life of Major General Henry Lee
Cecil B. Hartley

[Notes: Chapter 17]

[1] Memoirs.

[2] When General Greene approached Ninety-Six, he found the ladies of Lieutenant Colonel Cruger and Major Greene, in a farm-house in the neighborhood. The American general tranquilized the fears of the ladies, and as they preferred continuing where they were, he not only indulged them, but placed a guard at the house for their protection. The guard was left until Lieutenant Colonel Cruger was apprised of our departure, when he sent the guard with his passport to rejoin our army. Some hours after Greene had withdrawn, one of our light parties, absent some days, returned, and passing by the farmhouse, was going directly to our late camp before Ninety-Six, when Mrs. Cruger sending for the officer, communicated what has happened, and instructed him to overtake the retiring general.