The Minute Boys of South Carolina: A Story of "How We Boys Aided Marion the Swamp Fox
1907
The Minute Boys of South Carolina: A Story of "How We Boys Aided Marion the Swamp Fox
1907
The year is 1780. Charleston has fallen. British iron grips South Carolina, and the cause of American independence seems lost, until a band of boys decides to fight back. Sixteen-year-old Rufus Randolph flees occupied Charleston with his friend Gabriel Marion, younger brother of the legendary Francis Marion, to join the Swamp Fox's partisan militia. They recruit fellow patriots, outmaneuver a Tory betrayer, ride through darkness and swamp to reach Marion's hidden camp, and prove themselves indispensable to one of the most daring campaigns of the Revolution. From the assault on Britain's Neck to hairsbreadth reconnaissance missions against superior British forces, these boys are as brave as any soldier in Marion's irregular army. Written in 1907 as letters from an aging Rufus looking back on his youth, this adventure fiction celebrates the courage of young patriots who helped turn the tide against British occupation. It endures because it captures something true about how children experienced the Revolution, not as distant history, but as an urgent, dangerous, and defining moment in their lives.
