by John Oller
final liberation of, 208–211
General Assembly, 45, 212–219, 237–238
hostilities with Cherokees, 24–29
religious and ethnic divisions in, 15–16
South Carolina militia
dismissal of, 235–236
at Eutaw Springs, 193, 194
evacuation of Charleston and, 235
ex-Tories in, 232–233
Greene and, 187
South Carolina Rangers, 79, 85, 127, 171
South Carolina Royalists, 171, 192, 221. See also Fraser, Thomas
spies, 103–104
Marion’s, 73–74
punishment for, 201, 202
Spring Hill Redoubt, 49
Stewart, Alexander, 167, 168, 186
Eutaw Springs battle and, 189–199, 200
Sullivan’s Island, 38–41
Sumner, Jethro, 191, 193–194
Sumter, Thomas, 35, 89, 128, 162, 208–209
attack on Fort Watson, 124–125
attack on Monck’s Corner, 171–172, 174–175
authority of, 108, 121, 122, 123, 160, 175–176
Blackstock’s plantation battle and, 92, 108, 125
Constitution vote, 243
control of Marion’s and Lee’s regiments, 168
Dog Days campaign and, 168
end of military career, 176–177
exemption for appropriating private property, 240
Fish Dam Ford battle and, 91
Fishing Creek battle and, 10, 90
Fort Granby and, 123–124, 145, 159–160
General Assembly and, 213
Greene and, 102, 122, 125, 151, 160, 176–177
leadership of, 72
Orangeburg garrison and, 159–160
plantation of, 30, 54, 54n, 55, 96
plundering and, 90–91, 148
refusal to give quarter to British soldiers, 133
requests for Marion’s aid, 123, 124–125
siege of Ninety-Six and, 163, 164–165
Snow Campaign and, 38
summit meeting with Greene and, 166–167
Tarleton and, 85, 87, 91–92
threat of resignation, 160
Watson’s defeat of, 127
Wemyss and, 90, 91
Sumter’s Law
General Assembly and, 214
Horry and, 170
law giving immunity for acts under, 240
Marion’s disapproval of, 148, 170, 217
nullification of, 176
supply lines, Marion’s effect on British, 56, 81
Swamp Fox moniker, 87n
sweet potato dinner story, 105–106
Tamar (ship), 36, 37
Tarleton, Banastre, 7, 41, 57, 68, 75
attempt to capture Marion, 85–89
British occupation of Charleston and, 51–52
defeat at Blackstock’s plantation by Sumter, 92
defeat at Cowpens, 118–119
Fishing Creek battle and, 10, 90
Guilford Courthouse battle and, 144
Lee compared to, 113
military career, 82–85
“Tarleton’s Quarter,” 84
Taylor, Catherine, 22
Taylor, Thomas, 174–175
Tearcoat Swamp engagement, 79–81
Thompson, Benjamin, 220, 221–223. See also Rumford, Count
Thomson, William, 123, 186
Tidyman’s Plantation engagement, 222
Tories
in Charleston, 12–13
effect of King’s Mountain on morale, 75
pardons for, 202–203
Snow Campaign and resistance among, 37
Torriano, George, 137, 159
Tory militia, 16, 79–81
British lack of confidence in, 71–72
See also Ganey’s Tories
Trapier’s Plantation, 140
treaties
with Cherokees, 24, 25, 27, 234
with Ganey’s Tories, 162, 225–228
Treaty of Paris, 234
Turnbull, George, 81, 85, 95
Tynes, Fleming, 79–80
Tynes, Samuel, 79–81, 95–96, 123
Vanderhorst, John, 97–98
Videau, Anne Cordes, 241
Videau, Mary Esther, 240–241, 244
vigilante groups, 15, 32
Virginia Continentals, 83, 187, 194, 195, 197
von Benning, Ferdinand, 181–182, 183, 184–185
von Steuben, Friedrich Wilhelm, 144
Waccamaw Neck region, 107, 110, 113
Wadboo Barony, 231, 231n
Wadboo Bridge, 120, 172, 231
Wadboo Plantation, 231
discharge ceremony at, 236
engagement at, 232–233
Wambaw Creek, 213, 221–222
Wantoot Plantation, 197, 201, 209, 210
“war of posts,” 103, 145
Washington, George, 4, 11, 20, 47
Cornwallis’s surrender to, 206
Greene and, 100, 101, 151, 180, 233
Kirkwood and, 191
on Laurens, 230
Lee and, 114, 207–208
Marion compared to, 242
praise for Marion on surrender of Fort Motte, 159
Washington, William, 51, 52, 85, 119, 126, 187
Eutaw Springs battle and, 191, 194–195, 196–197, 196n
Waties, Thomas, 8, 69–70, 243
Watson, John Watson Tadwell-, 243
correspondence with Marion, 131, 132–133, 138
Fort Watson and, 146
inability to help Rawdon at Camden, 152
on Marion’s style of warfare, 140
prisoner exchange and, 132–133
pursuit of Marion, 126–140, 142
in retreat, 144
Waxhaws, 83–84, 125
Wayne, Anthony, 208, 235
Weems, Mason Locke (“Parson”), 20, 41, 157, 215, 243
on Black Mingo Creek victory, 73
legend of Swamp fox and, 246
on Marion’s experience in Cherokee War, 28, 29
Swamp Fox moniker and, 87n
on Tearcoat Swamp engagement, 80
on Wemyss, 63
Wemyss, James, 234
failed mission to sweep rebel forces from countryside, 56–57, 59, 74, 76
Harrison and, 79
pursuit of Marion, 62, 63–64
recall to Camden, 76
scorched-earth practices, 63–64, 65, 67
Sumter and, 90, 91
Whig militia, 16
superiority of, 71–72
Whigs
control of South Carolina, 37
Huguenots and, 33
parole and, 13–14, 52
White, Anthony, 52
White, John Blake, 106, 157
Wigfall, John, 37, 62, 74
will, Marion’s, 30–32, 244–245
Williams, Otho, 195, 231
Williamsburg district, 5
British efforts to subdue, 61, 62, 67, 74, 93–94, 135–136, 142
Marion in, 79, 100, 226
people of, 6, 14, 33, 116, 163
Williamsburg militia, Marion and, 5–7, 53, 67. See also Marion’s Brigade
Williamson, Andrew, 35, 37, 47, 52, 178, 179
Willis, Joseph, 29
Willow Grove skirmish, 141
Willtown Bridge, 69, 73
Wilmington (North Carolina), 144, 208
Wilson, James, 63
Winnsboro, 75, 91
Winyah Bay, 117
Witherspoon, Gavin, 97–98, 143, 232
Witherspoon, John, 137
Witherspoon’s Ferry, 6–7, 58, 68, 81, 105, 137, 141
Wright’s Bluff, 127
Wyboo (Wiboo) Swamp engagement, 128–131, 133, 136
Yorktown, 145, 187, 206, 207, 208
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