Balfour, commandant of Charleston, in a correspondence with General Moultrie.

The latter answered it in a frank and confident manner, which showed what he thought of it.

"I am sorry," he writes to Balfour, "to hear that General Marion should use his prisoners ill.

IT IS CONTRARY TO HIS NATURAL DISPOSITION: I KNOW HIM TO BE GENEROUS AND HUMANE."*1* He adds elsewhere: "General Marion always gave orders to his men that there should be no waste of the inhabitants' property, and no plundering."*2* Marion had lived in the family of Moultrie,*3* had repeatedly served under him, and if any man knew thoroughly his true disposition, the hero of Fort Sullivan was certainly that man.

But the testimony of all who knew him was to the same effect.