Francis Marion

Francis Marion fought a war of boats, swamps, and sudden roads in the South Carolina Lowcountry after the fall of Charleston. The British called him the Swamp Fox later; the name is less important than the method. He gathered militia, struck outposts and columns, and dissolved into the rivers before a regular force could form.

He had served in the Cherokee campaign as a young man and in the Continental line before the partisan years. The 1780–82 fighting in South Carolina was ugly on every side. This page will not turn it into a children's tale. It will say that Marion kept a resistance alive in a state the British thought they had pacified, and that Greene used that resistance.

After the war he sat in the state senate and lived at Pond Bluff. He died there on February 27, 1795.

The Revolution in the South was not only Yorktown. It was also a militia officer who slept wet and made the King's posts expensive.