Feeling sure of their Captain, he, in turn, rendered them confident of themselves.
Speaking of Marion's "PATIENCE with the militia"-- a phrase of great importance in this connection--Horry, in his own memoirs, which now lie before us, adds, "No officer in the Union was better calculated to command them, and to have done more than he did."* Lincoln knew his value.

The admirable training of the Second South Carolina Regiment had already done high honor to his skill as a disciplinarian.

He discovered the secret which regularly bred military men are slow to discern, that, without patience, in the training of citizen soldiers for immediate service, they are incorrigible; and patience with them, on the part of a commanding officer, is neither inconsistent with their claims nor with their proper efficiency.
* MS.

Memoir of Gen.

Horry, p.