Lieutenant Colonel Balfour commanded, and Lord Rawdon sought to save Colonel Hayne.] Greene was too humane, as well as too judicious, not to discourage this exterminating spirit.

Perceiving in it the total destruction of the country, he sought to appease it by restraining the excesses of those who were attached to the American cause.
At the high hills of Santee the reinforcements expected from North Carolina were received.

The American army, counting every person belonging to it, was augmented to two thousand six hundred men; but its effective force did not exceed sixteen hundred.
[Sidenote: Active movements of the two armies.] After the retreat of General Greene from Orangeburg, Lord Rawdon was induced by ill health to avail himself of a permit to return to Great Britain, and the command of the British forces in South Carolina devolved on Lieutenant Colonel Stuart.

He again advanced to the Congaree; and encamping near its junction with the Wateree, manifested a determination to establish a permanent post at that place.

Though the two armies were within sixteen miles of each other on a right line, two rivers ran between them which could not be crossed without making a circuit of seventy miles; in consequence of which Lieutenant Colonel Stuart felt himself so secure, that his foraging parties were spread over the country.