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The Life of Francis Marion

CHAPTER 5
16/55

To this cause our recruiting officers owed some of their success in the present expedition.

Some of the bravest fellows of the second regiment were picked up on this occasion.

It was the spirit which they brought, and to which the genius of Marion gave lively exercise, that imparted a peculiar vitality at all times to his little brigade.

Among these gallant young men there were two in particular, of whom tradition in Carolina will long retain a grateful recollection; these were Jasper and Macdonald.

Of these two, both of whom sealed their patriotism with their blood, we shall yet have something further to deliver.
While the friends of liberty were thus active, the adherents of the crown, in the colony, were not less so.


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