This post was temporarily a secure one.

Tarleton, meanwhile, was conducted faithfully by the deserter into the "wood-yard",--but the bird had flown.

He pressed the pursuit the next day, with that hot haste by which he was quite as much distinguished as by his cruelties.

But Marion knew his foe, and had already changed his ground.

Pushing his way through a wild extent of country, full of bogs and swamps, he reached Benbow's Ferry, about ten miles above Kingstree, where, taking a strong position, he resolved to defend himself.