Andrew Pickens Chapter - South Carolina Society - SAR

10/18/2026

10/18/2026

October 2026 Chapter meeting at Old Stone Church

10/14/2026

The Swamp Fox himself, Francis Marion, could vanish into the P*e Dee River country whenever the British came looking, but his young nephew had no such luck near White's Bridge in November of 1780.

Lieutenant Gabriel Marion was barely out of his teens when a Loyalist patrol cornered his small party outside Georgetown, South Carolina.

He surrendered without a fight, and for a moment the skirmish seemed likely to end with a march to a prison camp and eventual exchange.

Then one of his captors asked his name, and recognition spread through the Loyalist ranks as they realized whose family he belonged to.

Being a Marion, and worse, being kin to the guerrilla leader who had humiliated British columns across the Carolina lowcountry, made him a target rather than a prisoner.

His captors shot him through the chest at close range as he stood defenseless, killing him on the spot on November 15, 1780.

Word of the killing reached Francis Marion within days, and those who knew him said his grief over his nephew's death never fully lifted for the rest of the war.

A historical marker erected near the site in 1940 records the killing in spare language, noting only that the young lieutenant was captured and inhumanely shot.

The marker's plain wording has outlasted almost every other detail of the skirmish, a reminder that in a partisan war fought without rules, a family name could be a death sentence as easily as a badge of honor.

10/08/2026

In theaters November 6. A Revolutionary War drummer boy and his brother fight on opposite sides of a conflict that threatens to tear their family apart forever. Starring Joel Smallbone, Lucas Leach, India Brown, and Melora Hardin. Distributed by Angel.

10/08/2026

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10/04/2026

General Andrew Pickens Chapter, SCSSAR members at the Pickens 250 General Andrew Pickens birthday commemorative

09/28/2026

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09/05/2026

Colonel Francis Marion, a short, frail, and wiry at 48 years old, won fame and the “Swamp Fox” moniker for his ability to strike and then quickly retreat into the South Carolina swamps without a trace. His military strategy is considered an 18th-century example of guerilla warfare.
He also earned fame as the only senior Continental officer in the area to escape the British following the fall of Charleston on May 12, 1780.
Marion took over the South Carolina militia force first assembled by Thomas Sumter in 1780. Sumter, returned Carolina Loyalists’ terror tactics in kind after Loyalists burned his plantation. When Sumter withdrew from active fighting to care for a wound, Marion replaced him and teamed up with Major General Nathaniel Greene, who arrived in the Carolinas to lead the Continental forces in October 1780. Together, they are credited with grasping a Patriot victory from the jaws of defeat in the southern states."