Note 43 — Chapter XXIX
Reading edition
Tucker's History of the United States, Vol. I., Chap. iii., p. 254.
"There was no longer any armed American force in South Carolina; and Lord Cornwallis resorted to energetic means of preventing disaffection. All those who were found in arms after they had submitted to British protection were considered as having forfeited their lives, and several of them were hung on the spot. But these severities, instead of their intended effect, produced a strong reaction."—Ib., p. 256.