Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer
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HORRY, P[eter], and WEEMS, M[ason] L. The Life of Gen. Francis Marion, a Celebrated Partizan Officer in the Revolutionary War, against the British and Tories in South Carolina and Georgia. Phila.: M. Carey, 1816. 4th ed., improved. 260pp. Frontis., plates. Modern calf-backed marbled boards, raised spine band, red morocco spine label. Moderate foxing and soiling to text; loss to fore edge of p.57, repaired with tissue, affecting some text; several leaves with small tears to edges, repaired with tissue; else very good. HOWES H-650. Shaw & Shoemaker 39771. Skeel 88. "General Horry furnished the facts, Parson Weems the rhetoric; so much of it that Horry became indignant and disclaimed all connection with the book. Unabashed, Weems continued its publication through many editions" - Howes. Marion was a hero of the Revolution, and it was largely due to his actions and strategy that the turning point came in the South. Horry was his most trusted officer; his biography of Marion helped to establish the general as the legendary "Swamp Fox."
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