1. In a letter to Samuel Huntington, president of Congress, on this date, Greene asked if he would “be so obliging as to transmit Copies of my three last Letters to his Excellency Gl Washington” (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 , 8:363–65, quote on 364). Greene presumably refers to his letter to Huntington on 29 May and his two letters to Huntington on this date. Congress received both of Greene’s letters to Huntington dated 9 June on 17 July (after Huntington had resigned as president); there is no evidence that copies of Greene’s three letters were sent to GW (see JCC description begins Worthington Chauncey Ford et al., eds. Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789. 34 vols. Washington, D.C., 1904–37. description ends , 20:755, and Huntington to GW, 10 July, DLC:GW).

In his letter to Huntington dated 29 May, Greene reported that the British had left Camden, S.C.; that Lt. Col. Henry Lee, Jr., had marched for Augusta, Ga., with a third of Greene’s army; that Greene had marched for the British post at Ninety Six; that Fort Galphin (Dreadnought), S.C., had surrendered; and that Fort Cornwallis at Augusta was “closely invested” (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 , 8:325). In one letter to Huntington on 9 June, Greene announced the surrender of Fort Cornwallis (see 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 , 8:363). In another letter to Huntington on that date, Greene described orders given for the defense of Virginia, detailed siege operations at Ninety Six, reported the British evacuation of Georgetown, S.C., and noted that the British “now have no fortifyed Posts either in South Carolina or Georgia except Charles Town and Savannah and Ninety Six” (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 , 8:363–65).

2. Greene next wrote GW on 22 June.