A French grenadier officer, Cpt. Phillipe Seguier de Terson, remarked on the rag-tag appearance of most of the Patriot forces camped outside of Savannah. Most impressive to him was a Viriginia squadron of mounted infantry known as dragoons and the cavalry under Brig. Gen. Casimir Pulaski, a Polish nobleman who had volunteered to fight for the Patriot cause.
"The American army joined us today; it is composed of nearly 2,000 men. The commanding general is named Lincoln. For the most part these forces do not appear to be in good condition. Of those I saw, only the Virginia dragoons are well mounted. The rest are militia who are supposed to be quite good, at least they say they are. In addition there is Pulaski's corps of 200 hussars, very well mounted and disciplined. The Polish commander recruited this corps on his own initiative and at his own expense; however, he is under orders of the American general. The whole army pitched camp to the left of ours, by which position we shut the enemy in so tightly that he had no other alternative but to fight us to get rid of us."
Cpt. Phillipe Seguier de TersonKennedy, Benjamin (ed.) “Muskets, Cannon Balls & Bombs: Nine Narratives of the Siege of Savannah in 1779. Madison, WI: Beehive Press, 1974, pp. 11-12.