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The Papers of General Nathanael Greene: Vol. XI: 7 April - 30 September 1782

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This volume covers how the Revolution wound down in the South.

The academic team that has annotated the papers of Revolutionary Gen. Nathanael Greene has done an incredible job. Although I started working with the Greene volumes as a reference, I ended up reading a couple of them for pleasure. From the editors' explanation of how they've transliterated the original letters, to the glossary, the cross references, the annotations, and the explanations, they've opened up a world that would otherwise have been closed to all but the most specialized academics.

As for Greene himself, take out the 18th century random capitalization and punctuation, and you discover a modern man, sarcastic at times, often frustrated, with fast friendships, and a difficult job.