B. Gen & Senator
B.Gen / Senator Francis Marion
On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned captain in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom heserved in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan and Fort Moultrie, in Charleston harbor.
In September 1776 the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a lieutenant colonel. In the autumn of 1779 he took part in the siege of Savannah, and early in 1780, under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, was engaged in drilling militia.
Marion was not captured when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate. After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of Gen. Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lt. Col. Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small troop, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men, the only force then opposing the British Army in the state. At this point, he was still nearly crippled from the slowly-healing ankle.
In 1775 he was a member of the South Carolina Provincial Congress.
On June 21, 1775, Marion was commissioned captain in the 2nd
South Carolina Regiment under William Moultrie, with whom he
served in June 1776 in the defense of Fort Sullivan and Fort
Moultrie, in Charleston harbor.
In September 1776 the Continental Congress commissioned Marion as a lieutenant colonel. In the autumn of 1779 he took part in the siege of Savannah, and early in 1780, under Gen. Benjamin Lincoln, was engaged in drilling militia.
Marion was not captured when Charleston fell on May 12, 1780, because he had broken an ankle in an accident and had left the city to recuperate.
After the loss in Charleston, the defeats of Gen. Isaac Huger at Moncks Corner and Lt. Col. Abraham Buford at the Waxhaw massacre (near the North Carolina border, in what is now Lancaster County), Marion organized a small troop, which at first consisted of between 20 and 70 men, the only force then opposing the British Army in the state. At this point, he was still nearly crippled from the slowly-healing ankle.
