64 THE FAIR COURIER.

 

looking more to future results than present
triumphs, General Greene, on the 19th,
commenced retreating toward the Saluda,
which river he passed in safety, and moved
forward with all possible despatch for the
Enoree. Before his rear-guard had left the
south side of this river, the van of Lord
Rawdon’s army appeared in pursuit. But
the British commander hesitated to make
an attack upon Greene’s cavalry, which
was under the command of Lee and Colonel
Washington, and was a brave, well-disci-
plined, and superior troop, and so permitted
them to pass the Enoree unmolested. While
Lord Rawdon paused at this point, un-
determined which course to pursue, Gene-
ral Greene moved on toward the Broad
River, where he halted and made his en-
campment. °
Such was the aspect of affairs at the
time our story begins—a story of woman’s
self-devotion and heroism. Near the place
where General Greene had halted with his
weary and disheartened troops, stood the