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Excerpt from The Life of Gen. Francis Marion: Also, Lives of Generals Moultier and Pickens, and Governor Rutledge; With Sketches of Other Distinguished Heroes and Patriots Who Served in the Revolutionary War in the Southern States
General Pickens was the companion of Marion in some ofhis daring enterprises, an able and efficient coadjutor of General Greene, and one of the most useful of all the general officers who assisted in recovering the Southern States from the enemy.
Governor Rutledge was the most distinguished of all the Southern patriots, in the civil line. To his exertions the whole military force were greatly indebted for the success of their Operations. As governor and dictator of South Carolina, he rendered services to the cause, of the most important nature, and displayed a character and ability equal to every emer gency of those critical and perilous times.
Of several other military commanders and statesmen, we have given but slight sketches, in consequence Of the brief Space to which we were limited; but we trust that we have been successful in conveying to the mind of the reader a to] erably clear conception of the peculiar nature of the war in the Southern States, and of the characters of some of its lead ing Spirits as displayed in the field and in the cabinet.
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