Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1910-02-26

a person and so gentle voiced and
| modest a man should command the
reverence of not only the big, powerful
men he saw about him. but should be
so feared by the Tories and the Eng
lish amazed him.
After Marion had read the letter the
young man brought and had written an
answer the visitor arose as II to de-
part. Marion remarked that the jour
ney was a long one and 1t would be
well to refresh himself before starting
Dinner was in preparation. the gen
eral announced. The young officer
gladly accepted. Marion's calm dignity
and utter lack of military pretension
charmed the officer and he asked many
questions. Soon the dinner was serv-
ed. The one course was potatoes. but
was served in style. For plates the
negro servant had pieces of bark.
Marion apologized because he had no
salt to offer his guest. The last lot he
had captured from the British had
been consumed.
But surely, general said the young
officer after eating as much potato as
he thought politenosS required, this Is
not your ordinary fare"
Indeed 1t is,' was the earnest reply.
Tradition has it that when the young
officer returned to Georgetown he re-
signed his commission. Men who en-
his men were willing to undergo never
coul' Nc subdued, he declared.
Ant- he was right.
BIG GAME.
Greene had high opinion of Marion
end early In 1871 sent Lieut., Col. Lee
and his legion to join the general and
serve under him. This made Marlon's
force big enough to strike at bigger
game, and one of the first things Ma
rlon and Lee did was to capture Fort
Motto. the principal depot of conveys
between Charleston and Camden. This
was a hard blow for the British. Then
Marion invested and captured Fort
Watson. At ParlSer's Ferry he had A
sharp encounter with the British cav
airy under Maj. Frazier and put them
to rout and then Joined Greenes army
near Eutaw Springs. In the battle
of Eutaw Springs Marion commanded
the right wing of the militia. No
troops that day did better service than
the men of the Swamp Fox. In the
retreat the British were pursued by
Lee and Marion, who gave them little
rest.
Early In November came news of the
surrender of CORVALLIS at Yorktown,
but before that had been received camc
a message of thanks from Congress
to Marion for 'his gallant conduct in
defense OF the country and for his dis
tinguished services in the battle of
Eutaw Springs"
With the surrender of CORVALLIS the
game of the royalists practically was
up In the Carolinas. but nevertheless
the British fought doggedly. trying to
prevent the Americans from driving
them into Charleston and coopIng
tn I'M UP there. and the Americans just
as perslstently forced the British back
step by step. In all this there was
plenty of work for Marion and his
men.
PEACE MARRIAGE
With the dawn of peace Marion was
the same mild, gentle man that he
had been in camp. IL he bore any re-
sentiment against the Tories OF the
British for the destruction of his
plantation and the financial ruin In
which the war left him he did not show
It. for as a state senator he used oil
his influence TO heal the wounds of
Tories and Wings. A greater sur
prise than Francis Marion sprung on
Tarleton. CORVALLIS or any of the
British commanders was sprung by
the general upon his friends when he
was well past 30.
Then he married Miss Mary Videau.
one OF Charleston's most attrac-
tive daughters. Like himself she was
of the Huguenot stock, She was
wealthy and thereafter Marion had no
reason to worry about finances. The