PC or not, Marion - the “Swamp Fox - was a fantastic military leader!
Pension Application of Manual (Manuel) McConnell: S2773 ~ this guy is one my ancestors, and also ancestor to Senator McConnell. .................. We are very distant cousins ~ lots of procreating in between and lots and lots of McConnells. ............... You go to page 63 of the following document to find his pension application. He was involved in most of the bloodiest and most important fighting in the Southern Theatre ~ and he was engaged in a chase after Tarleton’s entourage and Tarleton himself......... He served initially under an officer who’d been in the war against the Cherokee and who’d tried to avoid involvement in the Revolution. He finally came out of his self-imposed military retirement to join the Rebels when the Brits burned down his plantation and everything he had. .............. You read through the section I’ve pointed to, and all the footnotes, and you get an idea of what it took to win freedom, and it wasn’t pretty, and it wasn’t easy, and it wasn’t clean ~ kind of like a years long 24/7 Bruce Willis movie where no one ever takes a bath, and all your buddies are dead ~ ........ ~ well, anyway, see: http://southerncampaign.org/newsletter/v4n123.pdf