Negative Space: Marion’s Men
- 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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- Gabriel Marion Historical Marker
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“When Capt. John Nelson, sent by Gen. Marion, Jan., 1781, to the Sampit Road to reconnoitre, met Capt. Barfield and his Tories near White’s Bridge, a sharp fight ensued. Lieut. Gabriel Marion, nephew of Gen. Marion, was captured and inhumanely shot about a quarter mile north of here. His name was fatal to him.”
- 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)
