The age-herald., 1897-11-07

den on their way To Charleston under strong British guard. With fhinty men he surprised the guard at daylight at Bifue House tavern. captured all pres ent with plenty of arms and ammunttiol1 without any boss. When MiaI1on de- mnnded the commanding officer lls could not be found. After extended ssarch he was found up the chimney of the hotel. Nlarlon's folce HOW increased 10 200. He won three otfpsr engagements in rapid succession, capturing 100 we'll equipped caValy horses at one time and armed his men well from the spoils Governor Rutledge now commissioned him briga- dier general Several regiments were added ito his command, but ITO one regi- ment in full WEES ever present ait one time. So adroit was he in cutting off the tories and British whenever they came out of Georgetown or Charleston or Camden that the psoT1e and the army named him "Samp Fox" He was a swanthy httle Fr5nohman, so dimlnutive at his birth that the midwife put him in a quart cup to measure hiis want of size. He was gentle and fearless. Sumt.r waB twice elected United Sibstes senator after tho war and Marion served in the state legislature
 Among Manton's officers was Abel Kolb commanding a Pedee regiment. Col. Kolb WAS at home on furlough. He, with his lieutenanlt colonsl, Lemuel Benton. and some others, went down the banks of the Psldee Ito punish certain tories liv- ing in tine S1W1amps. John Deer ard OS- burn Lefan were shot retreating; the last had hlls arm broken and the first was killed. Caleb Williams was caught and hung.
 These were sample leases of KoIb's success, though by no means all the fruits of the expedition The wftg par ty returned home and was dismissed. Soon after this event Capt. Joseph Jones, a tory neighbor, gathered fifty compan- ions, rode to Kolbt5 house at dead of might and called him up. His family con- sisted of "a wife, child, two sisters and two young men, Evans by name, who were spending the nfgha with him. There was an unequal fight made from within the walls. Alt length the tories without gave Kobb the option of sur render or the burnl-g of his house and all within. He buckted on his sword, went out, took it off and proffered it to Captain Jones. Instantly Mike Co., ings, a private of the tory gang, put ihis rife over Jones shoulder and shot Colonel Kolb dead. Thomas Evans was next shot and mortally wounded. The residence ard all bhe conten.s was inl- mediately burned to the ground.
 Near Kolbis was an old shoemaker. Wills, who rode a shaggy old pony that no body else wanted. The same morfing of Kolb's murder two redcoats went to Willis house to capture any money or thing of value that he might own. He shot uhem beth dead, got on his pony, and riding up the road told anybody tie met what he had done. Hearing that Mrs. WIilds, a widow, had lost bag or cold at the hands of maraudcrs, he rods on to her house, drew out such bag from his own pocket, that he had taken from the pocket of one of the dead rsd- coats, and was delighted to find that ft was the same Mrs Wlfhds had lost. She offered fo divide but he would accept mo reward.
 It was after Yorktown, a fuM year, be- fore the 'wthig and tory war ceased in South Carolina. Marion and Sumter be- came domestic palcifcators.