1. In his letter to Samuel Huntington on this date, Greene described his location as “Camp at Colonels Creek on the west side of the Wateree” River (Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 8:234–35). Colonel’s Creek was about twenty miles northwest of Camden, South Carolina.

2. The enclosed document reads: “Articles of a Cartel for the exchange and relief of prisoners of war taken in the Southern Department, agreed to at the House of Mr Claudius Pegee [Pegues], on the Pedee, the 3d of May 1781 between Lt Colonel Carrington on the part of Major Genl Greene and Captain Cornwallis on the part of Lt Genl Earl Cornwallis.

“1st that regular troops be exchanged for regulars, and militia for militia.

“2d that men enlisted for six months and upwards, in Continental or State service be looked upon as regulars.

“3d that the mode of exchange be rank for rank, as far as similar ranks shall apply.

“4th that officers be exchanged by rotation according to dates of capture; but a reciprocal option to be exercised as to subjects in non commissioned and privates, by naming particular Corps or particular persons.

“5th that no non commissioned officers or private soldier, admitted to parole, shall be considered as a prisoner of war, but finally liberated, unless paroled on the faith of a commissioned officer.

“6th that officers who cannot be exchanged for want of similar ranks to apply, be immediately paroled to their respective homes ’till exchanged, subject to be recalled for a breach thereof, or for a violation of the Cartel, by the party to whom they belong.

“7th that pasports be allowed for such supplies as may be sent from either side, to prisoners in captivity.

“8th that commissaries of prisoners be permitted to pass from each side, into the opposite lines, and reside there, for the purpose of veiwing and representing the sittuation of the prisoners, but removable by the respective commanding officers.

“9th that prisoner’s shall not be sent from the continent, whilst the articles of the cartel continue to be observed.

“10th that commissaries of prisoners shall immediately put in practice exchanges on the above prinsiples, as far as the subjects on each side will go, and continue them in future as subjects shall apply.

“11th that the first delivery of american prisoners shall embark at Charles Town on or before the 15th of June, and sail immediately for James Town in James River, where the first delivery of british prisoners shall embark on or about the first week in july, and sail immediately to the nearest british port.

“12th that the flag of truce shall be sacred going with the american prisoners and returning with the british, to the port where they are to be delivered” (DLC:GW). For the correspondence leading to the negotiation that produced this cartel, see Charles Cornwallis to Greene, 4 Feb. and 3 April, and Greene to Cornwallis, 9 April, in Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 7:250–51, 8:39–40, 73; see also Greene to Edward Carrington, 11 March, in Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 7:425–26. For Greene’s authority to conduct prisoner exchange negotiations, see Huntington to Greene, 31 Oct. 1780, in Greene Papers description begins Richard K. Showman et al., eds. The Papers of General Nathanael Greene. 13 vols. Chapel Hill, N.C., 1976–2005. description ends , 6:450–52.