Negative Space: General Francis Marion
- Mock the Wind and Sing of Marion’s Men
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“In Lexington, the center of revolt against the King…” One of the most modern figures of the American Revolution was a slaveholder and Indian fighter with a superhero name.
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- The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution (Volume II) (ebook)
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“The clouds were gathering fast—the waters were troubled—and the approaching tumult and disquiet of all things in Carolina, clearly indicated the coming of that strife, so soon to overcast the scene—so long to keep it darkened—so deeply to impurple it with blood.” (W. Gilmore Simms)
- Swamp Foxes
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“Swamp Foxes originated here at the Marion Military Institute in 1963. This organization was named after the Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, whose nick- name was ‘Swamp Fox.’ He was called this due to the daring exploits of his small and poorly equipped forces which harassed the Loyalists along the Peedee and the Santee rivers.”
- The Partisan: A Tale of the Revolution (Volume I) (ebook)
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“Our narrative begins in South Carolina, during the summer of 1780. The arms of the British were at that time triumphant throughout the colony.” (W. Gilmore Simms)
- The Swamp Steed; or The Days of Marion and His Merry Men (ebook)
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“In the middle of the afternoon of a fine, sunny day in the early part of April, in the year of grace one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, a young man dressed in the rough garb of a hunter, with a rifle thrown carelessly over his right shoulder, might have been seen making his way, with a calm, thoughtful air, through a thick wood which rose gradually till it reached the top of a high hill that overlooked the surrounding country, and whose brow jutted over the winding waters of South Carolina’s noblest river—the Santee.” (Anonymous)
