Chapter VI
"In my opinion this kingdom has no right to lay a tax on the colonies. ... America is obstinate. America is almost in open rebellion! Sir, I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves would have been instruments to make slaves of the rest." -- Wm. Pitt on Stamp Act (1766)

Chapter VII
"What shall we do for money, Captain Marion?"
"Why, we must get it from the Assembly."
The Assembly was applied to, but alas! "could not help us with a single dollar." -- Horry Memoirs

Chapter VIII
"Why, here is not a single line of retreat, and a half hour's bombardment will blow the guns out of the emplacements!" -- General Charles Lee

Chapter IX
"Devil take them! Their shot came so swift and so hot
And the cowardly dogs stood so stiff, sirs,
That I put ships about and was glad to get out
Or they would not have left me skiff, sirs!" -- Old song on Admiral Parker's Defeat

Chapter X
"That his [Lafayette's] services be accepted, and that, in consideration of his zeal, illustrious family and connections, he have the rank and commission of major-general of the United States." -- Act of Congress, July 31, 1777.

Chapter XI
"We were apprehensive the enemy would attempt to surprise Fort Moultrie; we, therefore, always kept a strong garrison under Marion." -- Moultrie's Memoirs.

Chapter XII
"It was the great good fortune of the State that Francis Marion was not among those who fell into captivity in the fall of Charleston." -- W. Gilmore Simms.

Chapter XIII
"Had Marion remained, could Gates have listened, we are very sure there would have been no such final, fatal disaster as suddenly stopped the misdirected progress of the Continental Army." -- W. Gilmore Simms.

Chapter XIV
"A moment in the British camp --
A moment -- and away;
Back to the pathless forest
Before the peep of day."
"Song of Marion's Men"
-- William Cullen Bryant.

Chapter XV
"The fiery Tarleton, who could not catch him, dubbed him the Swamp Fox. On one occasion Marion was almost surrounded by British dragoons in an open field. His only means of escape was to force his horse, 'Ball,' to leap a high fence and a four-foot ditch on the opposite side. His splendid horse cleared both fence and ditch, and Marion, bidding the British 'Good morning,' made his escape." -- Heriot Clarkson

Chapter XVI
"Our fortress is the good greenwood,
Our tent the cypress-tree;
We know the forest round us,
As seamen know the sea.

We know its walls of thorny vines,
Its glades of reedy grass,
Its safe and silent islands
Within the dark morass."
"Song of Marion's Men"
--William Cullen Bryant.

Chapter XVII
"At present I am badly off for intelligence. I wish you, therefore, to fix some plan for procuring such information and conveying it to me with all possible dispatch."
-- General Nathaniel Greene to Francis Marion

Chapter XVIII
"Now let us sing, God save the King!
And Gainey, long live he!
And when he next doth ride abroad
May we be there to see!"
-- Parody sung after Gainey's ride into Georgetown

Chapter XIX
"The place where Marion won his most signal victory was on the Parker's Ferry Road on the south side of the Edisto River." -- A. S. Salley.

Chapter XX
"On that memorable 14th of December, 1782, we entered and took possession of our capital [Charleston] after it had been two years seven months and two days in the hands of the enemy." -- Horry Memoirs.

Chapter XXI "Marion's plantation, Pond's Bluff, lay within cannon-shot of the battlefield at Eutaw where his Brigade won new laurels. All that remains of the plantation structure today are a few stones in the wall foundations of an old barn on the Simons' plantation in Eutawville." -- The Author.

Chapter XXII
"To fight the enemy bravely with the prospect of victory is nothing; to fight with intrepidity under the constant impression of defeat and to inspire irregular troops to do it, is a talent peculiar to yourself." -- General Nathaniel Greene to Marion.