Indeed, the gentleness of his nature made him a favorite wherever known.

Touching the lessons and hopes of plunder, which his men are said to have received, this scarcely requires any answer.

We have seen, and shall see hereafter, the state of poverty and privation in which the brigade of Marion subsisted.

A few little facts will better serve to show what their condition was.

During the whole period in which we have seen him engaged, and for some months later, Marion himself, winter and summer, had slept without the luxury of a blanket.