Docketed on verso: "From Colonel Laurens 20th March 1782. Plan of operation between the Ashley & Goose Creek. Capture of the Galley by Rudolph and Lt. Smith with 14 men of the legion infantry." Lt. Col. John Laurens joined the army as an aide-de-camp to General Washington in 1777. He was an opponent of slavery & an advocate of allowing slaves to earn their freedom by fighting as soldiers in the revolutionary war. In this letter to General Greene, Laurens recommends advancing the American positions to more closely engage with the enemy, and suggests strengthening their front by building new works that could be "performed altogether by blacks." He laments the lack of arms and clothing among the American troops, and he reports on the successful capture of a British schooner by a Captain Rudolph. Folds repaired.