Greene’s fear of renewed incursion by, 211
reinforcements under, 109, 110
seeking permission from Greene to buy provisions, 228
Lincoln, Benjamin, 5, 46, 47, 48, 49–51, 52, 101
Logan, George, 67, 70
long rifles, 26, 136–137
Lords Proprietor, 18
Louis XIV (French King), 18
Lower Bridge engagement, 136
Lyttelton, William, 24–25
Maham, Hezekiah, 149–150, 181, 191, 243
attack on Monck’s Corner, 171, 172, 173
blaming Marion for Thompson’s victory, 223
burning of hospital and, 209–210, 210n
General Assembly at Jacksonboro and, 213, 221
insubordination of, 203, 205
postwar behavior, 225n
rivalry with Horry, 169–170, 200, 217–218, 223–225
Stewart’s retreat and, 200
Maham Tower, 149–150, 157, 164
Malmedy, François de, 187, 189, 193
Manigault’s Ferry, 120
Mao Tse-tung, 9n, 107
Marion, Benjamin (brother), 21
Marion, Benjamin (grandfather), 18–19, 210
Marion, Charlotte (niece), 30, 241
Marion, Esther (Cordes) (mother), 20, 21, 22, 241
Marion, Esther (sister), 21, 117
Marion, Francis
address praising, 246
adopted children, 241–242
after Eutaw Springs, 200
attacks on Georgetown, 92–93, 115–118
attempt to recover Fort Watson, 145–146, 147–150
attempt to retake Savannah and, 47, 49–50
at Belle Isle, 22–23
birth of, 20
childhood, 21
combining Horry’s and Maham’s regiments, 223–224
commendations, 198, 239
commitment to revolutionary cause, 33–36
Confiscation Act and, 215–216
Cowpens victory and, 120
defense of Charleston, 39–40, 50
dispute between Horry and Maham and, 218
Dog Days campaign and, 168, 170–177
Doyle and, 141–142
education and, 243
effect on British supply lines, 56, 81
elected militia captain, 35–36
estate of, 244
evacuation of Charleston and, 235–236
final illness and death of, 244
final liberation of South Carolina and, 208–209, 211, 231–234
Fort Johnson sinecure and, 239–240
Fraser and, 180, 181–185
Gates and, 5–6, 78–79, 93–94
General Assembly and, 213–219, 237–238
in Georgetown, 77–78
Greene and, 109, 113
Greene’s letters to, 101–102, 103–104, 151
Greene’s requests for horses and, 111–112, 154–155, 156
Hampton Hill and, 23
Hayne and, 178
in hiding, 4
Horry’s insubordination and, 203–206
hostilities with Cherokees and, 28–29
humaneness of, 17, 148, 245
illness of, 201
as intelligence provider, 79, 103–104, 109–110, 202
joining Greene against Stewart’s forces, 188
on lack of contemporary recognition after war, 238–239
lack of logistical support, 58–59
leadership style, 43–45, 66, 72
life as farmer, 29–30
Maham’s insubordination and, 203, 205
Marion’s Brigade and, 52–53
marriage, 240–242
McLeroth and, 94–99
meeting with Greene, 159
militia recruitment and, 36, 90–91, 116, 120, 123
move to St. John’s Parish, 22
Murphy and, 64
need for horses for militia, 111–113
pardons for Tories and, 203
on partisan militia, 102–103, 142, 155, 156
places named for, 242n
as plantation owner, 30, 32, 237, 238, 242
policy against plundering, 90–91, 107, 123, 148
portrayal in The Patriot, 28
Postell and, 131–133, 138–139, 206
postwar militia brigade, 243
postwar Senate career, 242–243
promotions of, 39, 45, 108, 239
Provincial Congress and, 33, 34–35
punishment for spies, 201
raising new Continental regiments, 216–217
Rawdon’s pursuit of, 99, 123–124, 126, 127
reestablishment of legislature and, 212, 213
repelling British supply forays, 229
request to capture Georgetown, 161–162
rescue of American prisoners of war, 54–56
responsibility for children of siblings, 45–46
Rutledge’s tasks for, 200, 202–203
siege of Fort Motte and, 153–160
siege of Fort Watson and, 145–150
siege of Ninety-Six and, 163, 164–165, 166
Sinkler and, 206–207
as slaveholder, 20, 29, 30–31, 237, 242, 244–245
summit meeting with Greene and, 166–167
Sumter’s authority over, 121, 123, 175–176
Sumter’s Law and, 148, 170, 217
Sumter’s requests for aid and, 123, 124–125
as supreme field commander of South Carolina militia, 177
sweet potato dinner story, 105–106
Tarleton’s pursuit of, 85–89
Thompson and, 221–223
threat to resign, 155–156
victory party after Yorktown, 206
Watson and, 128–140, 142, 146, 149
Wemyss and, 62, 63–64
Williamsburg militia and, 5–7
will of, 30–32, 244–245
working with Lee, 114–118, 143, 144, 150
See also Marion’s Brigade
Marion, Francis (Dwight) (adopted son), 241–242, 244
Marion, Gabriel (brother), 21, 22, 30, 93, 237, 241
as delegate to Provincial Congress, 33
hostilities with Cherokees and, 25
Marion, Gabriel (father), 20, 21
Marion, Gabriel (nephew), 31, 34, 41–42, 93
Marion, Isaac (brother), 21, 34, 45, 162, 241
Marion, Job (brother), 21, 22, 30, 33, 71, 241
Marion, Mary (second wife of grandfather), 19
Marion, Mary Esther Videau (wife). See Videau, Mary Esther.
Marion, Robert (nephew), 30
Marion, Theodore (nephew), 241
Marion, William (nephew), 31, 32
Marion’s Bridges Campaign, 128–140
map of, 130
Marion’s Brigade, 8–9, 10, 53
attack at Black Mingo Creek, 68–71, 72–74
attack at Blue Savannah, 60–61
and Bridges Campaign, 128–131, 134–140
attack at Great Savannah (Sumter’s plantation), 54–56
attack on McLeroth at Halfway Swamp, 96–99
attack on Tynes’s Tory militia at Tearcoat Swamp, 79–81
comings and goings of volunteers, 79, 156
decrease in numbers of men, 142
and Eutaw Springs battle, 189, 193–194, 197–198
foray to Georgetown, 77–78
at Great White Marsh, 62, 65–66
and Parker’s Ferry engagement, 182–185
personnel changes, 169
return to South Carolina, 67
Snow’s Island camp, 104–107
Stewart’s retreat and, 200
Thompson’s attacks on, 221–223
and Wadboo Plantation engagement, 232–233
Marjoribanks, John, 192, 194–197, 201
Martin, Alexander, 226
Maryland Continentals, 54, 149–150, 151, 191, 195
massacre at Waxha
ws, 83–84
Mathews, John, 214, 223–224, 226, 227, 232, 235, 239
McCallum’s Ferry, 79
McCauley, James, 129, 173
McCottry, William, 8, 213
McCottry’s Rifles, 8, 141
Marion’s Bridges Campaign and, 135–138
McDonald, Allen, 78, 137, 159
McDonald, Archibald, 221
McKay, James, 147, 149, 150
McLeroth, Robert, 93, 94–95, 127
attack on while escorting recruits to Cornwallis, 96–99
McPherson, Donald, 153–154, 156–157, 158
McQueen, Alexander, 51
Mepkin Plantation, 213, 222
Merritt, Thomas, 138–139, 141, 170–171
Middleton, Henry, 13
Midway Plantation, 186
militia
fickleness of colonial, 25
Greene’s opinion of, 102–103
North Carolina, 94, 187, 193–194
performance at Eutaw Springs, 193–198
refusal to come to Charleston’s defense, 51
Whig, 16, 71–72
See also South Carolina militia; Tory militia
Miscally, Hugh, 158
Mitchell, Edward, 34
Mitchell, Thomas, 34
Moderators (vigilante groups), 15, 32
Monck’s Corner, 22, 51
British at, 83, 84n, 120, 159, 163, 165, 167, 168, 200
British evacuation of, 176
Marion in, 219
Marion’s attack on, 168–169, 171–175
Monmouth Courthouse (New Jersey), battle of, 11, 101
Montgomery, Archibald, 26
Morgan, Daniel, 109–110, 122
Cornwallis’s pursuit of, 119–120
victory at Cowpens, 118–119
Motte, Isaac, 36, 43, 45
Motte, Rebecca, 153, 157, 158
Moultrie, William, 7, 46, 51, 107, 156, 171n, 243
in Cherokee War, 27, 28
as commander of 2nd Regiment, 36–37
defense of Charleston, 39, 40, 41
evacuation of Charleston and, 235
General Assembly at Jacksonboro and, 213
Marion and, 4, 36
as prisoner of war, 52, 148–149
Moultrie flag, 36–37, 41n
Mount Hope plantation, 128
Mount Hope Swamp Bridge engagement, 134, 136
Mount Tacitus plantation, 188
Mouzon, Henry, 7, 68, 70, 207
Murphy, Maurice, 64, 65
Murphy, Moses, 64
Murray’s Ferry, 54, 117, 201
muskets, 26, 137, 137n
Nase, Henry, 131
Native Americans
in armed service under Marion, 3, 29
in British pre-Revolutionary forces, 25, 26–27
in South Carolina, 19
white fears of uprisings by, 16, 35
See also Cherokees
Nelson’s Ferry, 54n, 78, 186, 188
British at, 55, 104, 120, 127, 128, 152, 159
Marion harassing British at and around, 54, 56, 58, 81, 85, 99, 120, 165
McLeroth and, 94, 96
neutrality, parole and, 13–14
19th Regiment of Foot, 171–173, 192
Ninety-Six post, 145
battles at, 37, 160, 163–165
British at, 109–110
as priority for Greene, 161
North, Frederick, 226
North Carolina, treaty breaches and, 225–228
North Carolina militia
at Eutaw Springs, 193–194
Greene and, 187
Harrington and, 94
oaths of allegiance, 7, 13, 14, 63, 71, 178, 179, 202, 203
Oconostota, 24, 27
Orangeburg
British command of, 145, 166, 168
fall of, 159–160
Greene’s plan to attack, 167
Sumter at, 208–209
Oscar (Buddy) (slave), 4, 20, 30, 31, 106, 237, 244, 245
Ox Swamp, 87
pardons, for Tories, 202–203, 227
Parker, Peter, 38, 40, 41
Parker’s Ferry engagement, 182–185, 187–188, 198, 232
parole, 7n, 13–14, 52
The Patriot (film), 28, 85
Peggy (slave), 29, 31, 237, 244, 245
Peyre, Charles, 71
Peyre, John, 68, 71
Peyre’s Plantation, 161, 181, 185, 209
Phoebe (slave), 31, 237, 245
Pickens, Andrew, 38, 122, 126, 164, 197
attempt to recover forts on Georgia border, 145, 160
Battle of Cowpens and, 118–119
Eutaw Springs battle and, 189, 193
exemption for appropriating private property, 240
fall of Augusta and, 163
final liberation of South Carolina and, 208
General Assembly at Jacksonboro and, 213
Greene’s attack on Stewart and, 187
leadership of, 72
parole and, 52, 119n
Sumter’s Law and, 148
Pinckney, Charles (president of South Carolina Senate), 13
Pinckney, Charles Cotesworth, 35, 36, 217, 239, 243–244
plundering, Marion’s view of, 90–91, 107, 123, 148. See also Sumter’s Law
Pond Bluff (Marion’s plantation), 30, 32, 107–108, 128, 188, 236, 237, 238, 241, 244
Port’s Ferry, 61, 67, 79, 105
Postell, James, 8, 120, 121, 213, 243
Postell, John, 8, 107, 109, 116, 117
burning British supplies, 120–121
General Assembly at Jacksonboro and, 213
as prisoner of war, 131, 132, 138–139, 170, 206
Postell, John, Sr., 131
pounder (definition), 40n
Presbyterians, 15–16, 63
Prévost, Augustine, 46, 48, 49
prisoner exchanges, 7n, 116, 131–133, 180, 206, 207
Provincial Congress (South Carolina), 33, 34–36
Provincials, 54n
Pulaski, Casimir, 47, 49
Quarter House, 210
Queen’s Rangers, 138, 170, 171
Quinby Bridge, 172–173
Ravenel, Daniel, 197, 201
Rawdon, Francis, 82, 95, 119
battle with Greene at Hobkirk’s Hill, 151
on cavalry, 112
in charge of South Carolina, 145
departure from colonies, 166–167
evaluation of Camden and, 152
fall of Fort Motte and, 156–157, 159
Hayne and, 179
McLeroth and, 99
pursuit of Marion, 99, 123–124, 126, 127
siege of Ninety-Six and, 163, 164–165, 166
temporary command of, 76
Tynes and, 96
Watson and, 144
Rawdon Town, 166
recruitment
Continentals, difficulties in raising, 43, 45
Marion and, 36, 90–91, 116, 120, 123
Sumter’s success in, 90
Reed, Joseph, 110–111
Regulators (vigilante groups), 15, 32
religious divisions in South Carolina, 15–16
Richardson, Dorothy, 85, 86–87, 88, 206–207
Richardson, Richard, 37, 85, 88n
Richardson, Richard, Jr., 86, 189, 191
Richardson’s Plantation, 85–86, 88, 96, 191
Richbourg, Henry, 127, 129
Richbourg’s Mill Dam, 86
Roberts, John, 54
Royal Gazette (Charleston newspaper), 141
Rumford, Count (Benjamin Thompson), 223
“running the gauntlet,” 184
Rutledge, Edward, 217
Rutledge, John, 35, 107, 111
Buford and, 83
defense of Charleston, 39
in exile, 13, 51
General Assembly at Jacksonboro and, 214
Horry and Maham and, 170
letter to Horry, 204
Marion’s promotion to brigadier general,
108
pardons for Tories and, 202–203
Prévost’s incursion into Charleston and, 46
proposal to arm slaves and, 217
reestablishment of civil government, 212
reliance on Marion, 200, 202
siege of Savannah and, 49
Sinkler’s imprisonment and, 207
Sumter and, 90, 122
Sumter’s Law and, 148, 176
on victory at Parker’s Ferry, 185
St. James Parish, 22, 68
St. John’s (Berkeley) Parish, 20, 22, 33, 213, 242n
St. Stephen’s Parish, 22, 29–30, 33, 68
Salem Black River Presbyterian Church, 74, 79
salt, as valuable commodity, 92, 106, 107, 116, 120, 139, 158, 176, 203, 224
Sampit River Bridge engagement, 139
Santee River, British supply lines and, 56, 81
Saunders, John, 131–133, 139, 170, 171
Savage, Nathan, 157
Savannah (Georgia)
American attempt to retake, 47–50
battle of, 230
British evacuation of, 228
fall of, 12, 46
Scotch-Irish, 15–16, 33
Scott, John, 140
Scottish Highlanders
immigrant people, 15–16
British military unit, 92
2nd South Carolina Regiment, 36–37, 38, 39, 41, 43–45, 49–50
Seven Years’ War, 24
7th Regiment of Foot (Royal Fusiliers), 96, 119
Sevier, John, 208, 209
Shelby, Isaac, 208, 209
Sheppard’s Ferry, 68
Shubrick, Richard, 41
Shubrick, Thomas, 172–173
Shubrick’s plantation, 172–174
sieges
of Charleston, 3–4
of Fort Granby, 123–124
of Fort Motte, 153–160
of Fort Watson, 145–150, 152
of Georgetown, 162
of Ninety-Six, 163–166
of Savannah, 49
Simms, William Gilmore, 87n, 105, 233
Singleton, John, 186
Singleton’s Mills, 85, 98–99
Sinkler, Peter, 206–207
63rd Regiment of Foot, 54, 56, 59, 75, 92, 191, 194
64th Regiment of Foot, 94, 96, 127, 152, 191, 194
slaves
Benjamin Marion’s, 19
British use of, 16, 50, 201, 217
Confiscation Act and, 215
Marion as slaveholder, 20, 30, 31, 162, 237, 242, 244–245
as payment for joining Continental regiments, 217
population in South Carolina, 19
proposals by patriots to arm, 47, 217
punishment for spies and, 202
white fears of slave insurrections, 16, 35, 50
smallpox, 25, 98, 147, 237–238
Smith, John Caraway, 222
Snipes, William Clay, 81, 123, 148, 170–171, 171n
Snow Campaign, 37–38, 85
Snow’s Island base camp, 104–107, 123, 139, 140–141
South Carolina
American Revolution in, 10, 11–17
civil war in, 14–16, 64–65