A monthly return of ye Second Regiment of So. Carolina Infantry on the continental establishment commanded by Lt. Colonel Francis Marion at Sullivants Island 2 December 1778. 1778.

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Marion, Francis, 1732-1795. A monthly return of ye Second Regiment of So. Carolina Infantry on the continental establishment commanded by Lt. Colonel Francis Marion at Sullivants Island 2 December 1778.

A monthly return of ye Second Regiment of So. Carolina Infantry on the continental establishment commanded by Lt. Colonel Francis Marion at Sullivants Island 2 December 1778. 1778.

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This holograph document shows the strength of the Revolutionary forces in South Carolina between the Battle of Sullivan's Island and the surrender of Charleston. The regimental head-count that Marion reportsignature of marions in this document (277 of all ranks: 22 officers, 5 staff, 22 NCOs, 15 bandsmen, and 213 rank and file) contrasts dramatically with his resources two years later, in his first guerilla campaigns, but even so was less than half the men needed to bring numbers up to full strength (for which another 354 men were needed, nearly all rank-and-file). The muster roll also shows, in the names of the officers, the strength of support for the Revolution at this time among leading South Carolina families. His second-in-command listed in the muster, Major Peter Horry (1743-1815), fought with Marion in the later Pee Dee period, and provided Parson Weems with documents for Weems's biography of Marion (1809), published under their joint names.

1 item ; 32 x 41.5 cm.

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