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From: "Bil Brasington" <>
Subject: Re: The Swamp Fox Roster Lookup
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 05:51:13 PST


If you got his yesterday, sorry. My ISP crashed and I am not sure
whether this message went out.
Burrows
Samuel also as Burroughs
William
William W
All were privates are non-commissioned

Bil

>From: "Gary Payne" <>
>Subject: Re: The Swamp Fox Roster Lookup
>Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 16:40:57 -0500
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>To:
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>Hi, Would you please see if can find any Burrows in there?
>Thanks, Joyce Payne
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bil Brasington <>
>To: <>
>Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 12:15 PM
>Subject: The Swamp Fox Roster Lookup
>
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>>After the fall of Charleston in 1780, Francis Marion's Brigade, one
>>hundred fifty tattered patriots, continued the effort. None received
>>pay, food or even ammunition from the Continental Army. The only
reward
>>they sought was freedom from tyranny, freedom for America. With these
>>untrained pioneer backwoodsmen, Francis Marion took from the British
the
>>Pee Dee section of South Carolina, fully one-third of the State, and,
>>while they were making frantic efforts to capture him, held it against
>>them for nearly a year before any other American force succeeded in
>>holding an acre of territory in the State against them for a single
day.
>>Marion's brigade's labors in the Pee Dee country saved South Carolina
>>and Georgia for Independence and the American Union. Although Marion
>>received a Congressional citation for wisdom and bravery he was never
>>accorded the honor his country owed him, and when the British
evacuated
>>Charleston he was not asked to participate in the celebration because
he
>>and his men were too ragged. But that ragged brigade who followed
>>Francis Marion on the long, hard road to American independence earned
>>its rightful plate in history. His services from 1780 to 1783 make
the
>>most dramatic and colorful chapter in American history. After the War
>>Between the States, history was rewritten to minimize the contribution
>>of the South to the American Revolution. again minimizing the
>>contribution of The Swamp Fox.
>>Starting in 1938, William Willis Boddie of Charleston distributed a
>>booklet called "General Francis Marion's Men, A List of Twenty-five
>>Hund", typed. He did not take out a copyright on the booklet. In 1949,
>>Leonardo Andrea of Columbia, retyped the list and I have a copy.
>>Neither Mr Boddie or Mr Andrea claims it is complete, only accurate as
>>far as it can go.
>>If you think your ancestory may have served in this glorious group
with
>>Generla Marion and Captain George King (my great great great great
>>grandfather), I will be happy to check and see if he were included.
>>
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