The Quaker and the Gamecock

This story of a conflict between two commanders amid the struggle to oust the British from South Carolina is “great for anyone teaching leadership” ( Military Review ). As the newly appointed commander of the Southern Continental Army in December 1780, Nathanael Greene quickly realized victory would not only require defeating the British Army, but also subduing the region’s brutal civil war. “The division among the people is much greater than I imagined, and the Whigs and the Tories persecute ea