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Article: Return to pond bluff.(the life of General Francis Marion after the American Revolution ended)
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- Cobblestone
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- December 1, 2001
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At the end of the American Revolutionary War, the South Carolina militia was quietly disbanded. General Francis Marion said good-bye to his faithful guerrilla bands, who had assembled at Wadpoo Creek. In a short speech, he thanked his ragged and hungry men for their bravery and wished them happiness and prosperity. The men watched as Marion mounted his beloved horse, Ball, and headed to Pond Bluff, his plantation home along the Santee River.
Marion found his plantation in ruins. His farm was within a mile of the route over which the British had marched many times. Encampments and battles had taken place there, leaving buildings in disrepair or burned to the ...