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A Sketch of the Life of BRIG. GEN. FRANCIS MARION, and A
History of his Brigade, From its Rise in June, 1780, until Disbanded in
December, 1782; With Descriptions of Characters and Scenes, not
heretofore published.
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Containing also, An Appendix, with Copies of Letters which passed
between several of the Leading Characters of that Day; Principally
From Gen. Greene to Gen. Marion.

======== By William Dobein James, A.M. During that Period one of
Marion's Militia. At Present one of the Associate Judges in Equity,
South Carolina. ========
~Quae contentio, divina et humana cuncta perniscuit, eoque vecordiae
processit uti civilibus studiis bellum finem faceret.~ -- Sall.

District of South-Carolina.
--------- | L. S. | BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fifth day of April,
--------- Anno Domini, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, and
in the forty-fifth year of the Independence of the United States of
America, the Honourable WILLIAM DOBEIN JAMES, deposited in
this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author and
proprietor, in the words following, TO WIT:
"A Sketch of the life of Brigadier General FRANCIS MARION, and a
history of his Brigade from its rise in June, 1780, until disbanded in
December, 1782; with descriptions of characters and scenes not
heretofore published. -- Containing also an appendix, with copies of
letters which passed between several of the leading characters of that
day, principally from Gen. Greene to Gen. Marion. By William Dobein
James, A.M. during that period one of Marion's militia -- at present one
of the Associate Judges in Equity, South-Carolina."
In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled, "An
Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps,
charts and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during
the times therein mentioned," and also an act entitled, "An Act
supplementary to an act, entitled, `An act for the encouragement of
learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts and books, to the
authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein
mentioned,' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing,
engraving and etching historical and other prints."
JAMES JERVEY, Clerk of the District of South-Carolina.

Preface.

During the siege of Charleston, in May, 1780, the grammar school at
Salem, on Black river, where I had been placed by my father, Major
JOHN JAMES, broke up; and I was compelled to abandon my school
boy studies, and become a militia man, at the age of fifteen. At that
time of life it was a great loss; but still I was so fortunate as to have
General MARION as my commander, and my much honoured father,
who was a sincere christian, as my adviser and protector. I do not
intend to write a history of my own life; but it was thus, that I became
in a great measure an eye witness of the scenes hereafter described; and
what I did not see, I often heard from others in whom confidence could
be placed.
I felt an early inclination to record these events; but Major WEMYSS
burnt all my stock of paper, and my little classical library, in my
father's house; and, for two years and a half afterwards, I had not the
common implements of writing or of reading. This may appear strange
at present; but it is a fact, that even our general, when sending out a
patrole, would request the officer to try to get him a quire of paper.
After the war, other active pursuits prevented