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7 George W . Greene , The Life of Nathanael Greene , Major-General in the Army of the Revolution ( Boston : C . C . Little and J . Brown , 1846 ), 83 .
8 Thayer , Nathanael Greene , 36 – 39 . 9 Johnson , Sketches of the Life and Correspondence of Nathanael Greene , 15 .
11 Thayer , 44 . 12 Carbone , Nathanael Greene , 16 – 17 .
13 Thayer , 46 ; Charles Caldwell , Memoirs of the Life and Campaigns of the Honorable Nathaniel Greene , Major General in the Army of the United States , and Commander of the Southern Department , in the War of the Revolution ( Philadelphia : Robert DeSilver , 1819 ), 40 .
14 Thayer , 44 ; Carbone , 17 . 15 Carbone , 19 . 16 Thayer , 50 – 51 . 17 Thayer , 51 .
18 John M . Dederer , Making Bricks without Straw : Nathanael Greene ’ s Southern Campaign and Mao Tse-Tung ’ s Mobile War ( Manhattan , KS : Sunflower University Press , 1983 ), 5 ; Roger J . Bresnahan , “ William Gilmore Simms ' s Revolutionary War : A Romantic View of Southern History ,” Studies in Romanticism 15 , no . 4 ( 1976 ): 575 ,
https :// doi . org / 10.2307 / 25600050 ; Daniel J . Boorstin , The Americans : The National Experience ( New York : Random House , 1965 ), 362 – 72 . Boorstin provides a good overview of the writing and publishing dynamic in the new republic . In the chapter “ The Quest for a National Past ,” Boorstin explains the circumstances , motives , and evolution of America ’ s attempt at creating its documented identity . Understanding the situation during early publications helps to explain the portrayal of the American Revolution .
19 Don Higginbotham , “ Some Reflections on the South in the American Revolution , The Journal of Southern History 73 , no . 3 ( August , 2007 ): 660 ; Golway , Washington ’ s General , 49 .
20 Golway , 49 . 21 G . W . Greene , The Life of Nathanael Greene , 88-89 ; Golway , 56 .
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