In the course of the following night, the stores at Dorchester were burnt, and the garrison retired to the Quarter House, where their principal force was encamped.

Greene returned to the army at the Round O, at which place he purposed to await the arrival of the reinforcements marching from the north under the command of General St.Clair.In the mean time, General Marion and Lieutenant Colonel Lee were stationed on each side of Ashley, so as to cover the country between the Cooper and the Edisto; thus confining the influence of the British arms to Charleston neck, and the adjacent islands.[7] [Footnote 7: During this campaign a very effective expedition against the Cherokees was conducted by General Pickens.

When the struggle for South Carolina recommenced, those savages were stimulated to renew their incursions into the settlements of the whites.

At the head of about four hundred mounted militia, Pickens penetrated into their country, burned thirteen of their villages, killed upwards of forty Indians, and took a number of prisoners, without the loss of a single man.

On this occasion a new and formidable mode of attack was introduced.