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The surprising, decisive victory at Kings Mountain, coming after a series of disasters and humiliations in the Carolinas—the fall of Charleston and capture of the American army there, the destruction of another American army at the Battle of Camden, the Waxhaws Massacre—is a great boost to Patriot morale.

The Tories of the Carolina back country are broken as a military force.

Additionally, the destruction of Ferguson's command and the looming threat of Patriot militia in the mountains causes Lord Cornwallis to cancel his plans to invade North Carolina; he instead evacuates Charlotte and retreats to South Carolina.

He will not return to North Carolina until early 1781, when he is chasing Nathanael Greene after the Americans deal British forces another defeat at the Battle of Cowpens.

Continental Army commander General George Washington had chosen Nathanael Greene, a Rhode Island Quaker officer, to be commander of the Southern Department of the rebel Continental forces on October 14, 1780.

Greene's task is not an easy one.

In 1780 the Carolinas had been the scene of a long string of disasters for the Continental Army, the worst being the capture of one American army under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln in May 1780, at the Siege of Charleston.

The British had taken control of this city, the largest in the South and the capital of South Carolina, and occupied it

Later in the year another Patriot army, commanded by General Horatio Gates, had been destroyed at the Battle of Camden.

A victory of Patriot militia over their Loyalist counterparts at the Battle of Kings Mountain on the northwest frontier in October had bought time, but most of South Carolina is still occupied by the British.

When Greene took command, the southern army numbered twenty-three hundred and seven men (on paper, fourteen hundred and eighty-two present), of whom only nine hundred and forty-nine were Continental regulars, mostly the famous highly trained "Maryland Line" regiment.

The Charlotte Mint is built to handle the gold coming from the rich gold veins of North Carolina, including Reed's.

Both the Charlotte (C mint mark) and Dahlonega (D mint mark) Mints are opened to facilitate the conversion of local gold deposits into coinage, and mint only gold coins.

The Civil War will close both these facilities permanently.

...Charlotte, on January 29, 1856.

General Lee orders Joseph E. Johnston to take command of the Army of Tennessee and other Confederate units in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida, on February 23, and to "concentrate all available forces and drive back Sherman." (Hughes, Nathaniel Cheairs, Jr. Bentonville: The Final Battle of Sherman and Johnston Chapel Hill, North Caronlia: University of North Carolina Press, 1996, p. 21-22)

Johnston manages to concentrate in North Carolina the Army of Tennessee commanded by Stewart, Major General Robert Hoke's division from the Army of Northern Virginia, troops from the Department of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida commanded by Hardee, and cavalry under the command of Hampton, calling the united force the Army of the South.

Davis and his entire cabinet arrive in Charlotte with a contingent of one thousand soldiers on April 18.