Motives of private anger and personal revenge embittered and increased the usual ferocities of civil war; and hundreds of dreadful and desperate tragedies gave that peculiar aspect to the struggle, which led Greene to say that the inhabitants pursued each other rather like wild beasts than like men.

In the Cheraw district, on the Pedee, above the line where Marion commanded, the Whig and Tory warfare, of which we know but little beyond this fact, was one of utter extermination.

The revolutionary struggle in Carolina was of a sort utterly unknown in any other part of the Union.
* Judge James writes: "Gabriel Marion...

was taken prisoner; but as soon as his name was announced, he was inhumanely shot.

The instrument of death was planted so near that it burnt his linen at the breast."-- A.