There was nothing to show for the campaign but inaction, disappointment, and the loss of the Carolinas.

With the commander-in-chief, through it all, were ever present two great questions, getting more portentous and more difficult of solution with each succeeding day.

How he was to keep his army in existence was one, and how he was to hold the government together was the other.

He had thirteen tired States, a general government almost impotent, a bankrupt treasury, and a broken credit.

The American Revolution had come down to the question of whether the brain, will, and nerve of one man could keep the machine going long enough to find fit opportunity for a final and decisive stroke.