It was the end of him.

He went to the rear, thence to a court-martial, thence to dismissal and to a solitary life with a well-founded suspicion of treason hanging about him.

He was an intelligent, quick-witted, unstable man, much overrated because he was an English officer among a colonial people.

He was ever treated magnanimously by Washington after the day of battle at Monmouth, but he then disappeared from the latter's life.
When Lee bowed before the storm and stepped aside, Washington was left to deal with the danger and confusion around him.

Thus did he tell the story afterwards to his brother: "A retreat, however, was the fact, be the causes what they may; and the disorder arising from it would have proved fatal to the army, had not that bountiful Providence, which has never failed us in the hour of distress, enabled me to form a regiment or two (of those that were retreating) in the face of the enemy, and under their fire; by which means a stand was made long enough (the place through which the enemy were pressing being narrow) to form the troops, that were advancing, upon an advantageous piece of ground in the rear." We cannot add much to these simple and modest words, for they tell the whole story.