The Life of General Francis Marion,
a Celebrated Partisan Officer, in the Revolutionary War,
against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia

by Brig. Gen. P. Horry, of Marion's Brigade, and
M. L. Weems, formerly rector of Mount Vernon Parish.



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"On VERNON'S CHIEF why lavish all our lays;
Come, honest Muse, and sing great MARION'S praise."
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Preface.



"O that mine enemy would write a book." -- This, in former times,
passed for as sore an evil as a good man could think of wishing
to his worst enemy. -- Whether any of my enemies ever wished me
so great an evil, I know not. But certain it is, I never dreamed
of such a thing as writing a book; and least of all a `war book'.