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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition., Chapter 15: (search)
place for the militia of Carolina. Thither came Christopher Gadsden, Ramsay's History of South Carolina, II. 458. born in chap. XV.} 1759. 1724, long the colonial representative of Charleston, dear to his constituents; at whose instance and under whose command an artillery company had just been formed, in a province which till then had not had a mounted field-piece. There, too, was the heroic Francis Marion, Simms's Life of Marion, 33, 46. I have not seen James's Life of Marion. Weems's Marion, 22. as yet an untried soldier, just six-and twenty, the youngest of five sons of an impoverished planter, reserved and silent, small in stature, and of a slender frame, so temperate that he drank only water, elastic, persevering, and of sincerest purity of soul. H. Lee's Southern Campaign, 432. Yet the state of the troops, both as to equipments and temper, was such as might have been expected from the suddenness of their summons to take the field against the judgment of their le