It was not calculated therefore to raise the troop of our partisan in his esteem, to discover that they were all good riders and well mounted.

Marion, himself, was a man equally modest in approach and unimposing in person.

His followers may have provoked the sneer of the General, as it certainly moved the scorn and laughter of his well-equipped Continentals.

We have a description of them from the pen of an excellent officer, the Adjutant General of Gates' army.

He says, "Col.