Its leader, in the performance of these services, displayed a mind of so much fertility of invention and military resource, as to add greatly to his previous reputation as a partisan.
The whole army had exhibited a degree of activity, courage, and patient suffering, surpassing any expectation that could have been formed of troops composed chiefly of new levies; and its general had manifested great firmness, enterprise, prudence, and skill.
The suffering sustained in this ardent struggle for the southern states was not confined to the armies.

The inhabitants of the country felt all the miseries which are inflicted by war in its most savage form.

Being almost equally divided between the two contending parties, reciprocal injuries had gradually sharpened their resentments against each other, and had armed neighbour against neighbour, until it became a war of extermination.

As the parties alternately triumphed, opportunities were alternately given for the exercise of their vindictive passions.

They derived additional virulence from the examples occasionally afforded by the commanders of the British forces.