Francis Marion led South Carolina militia against the British during the Revolution, striking from the swamps and vanishing again. Parson Weems, who also gave the world the cherry-tree story of Washington, tells his campaigns with florid speeches, burning houses and heroic set pieces, many of them invented, so this is folk legend more than history.
A classic of early American myth-making, best read for how the young republic wanted its heroes to look. Download the free EPUB.