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Rh, he directed Marion to co-operate with Lee in reducing Foi't Watson, which commanded the communications of Lord Rawdon at Camden. Fort Watson stood upon a mound forty feet high in the middle of a wide, flat plain. At the suggestion of one of Marion's officers, Maj. Mayham, a rude wooden tower was built, which commanded the fort so as to make it untenable. On 23 April, Fort Watson surrendered at discretion, and Raw- don, finding his connnunications severed, was obliged to evacuate Camden and retreat to Monk's Corner. The enemy's grasp upon the interior of South Carolina was thus seriously loosened. Marion then proceeded to besiege and capture Fort Motte, and afterward, in concert with Sumter, undertook to hold Rawdon in check while Greene laid siege to Ninety-Six. In the course of these operations Marion made his third attempt upon Georgetown, and captured the place. The arrival of British re-enforcements enabled Rawdon to escape and raise the siege of Ninety-Six, but Marion and Sum- ter, moving u.pon his communications, made it necessary for him to abandon that post and retreat upon Orangeburg. In a sharp fight at Quimby Bridge, 17 July, the two American generals tried to sever his communications and force him from Orangeburg, but this attempt did not succeed. In the Eutaw campaign, a month later. Gen. Marion made a brilliant and useful raid, traversing 200 miles of country, making a complete circuit about the British army, and in an action at Parker's Ferry, 31 Aug., struck a blow at the enemy's cavalry which crippled it for the rest of the campaign. At the decisive battle of Eutaw Springs, 8 Sept., Marion commanded the right of the first line, and after the victory he joined with Lee in the pursuit, in which great numbers of prisoners were taken. From this time until the evacuation of Charleston by the British, 14 Dec, 1782, though there were no serious campaigns, there was more or less desultory fighting, in which Marion had a hand to the last. Before he had time to undertake the restoration of his modest estate, which had suffered greatly dur- ing the war, he was elected to the state senate, where he was kept by re-elections till 1790. In 1784 he was appointed commandant of Fort John- son, and in the same year he married Miss Mary Videau. He had no children. In 1790 he was a member of the convention for framing a constitu- tion for the state of South Carolina, after which he retired from public life. In the senate he was conspicuous for his advocacy of gentle measures toward the Tories, and for his ener- getic condemna- tion of the con- fiscation act of 1782.

In person Gen. Marion was short and slight, but ex- tremely lithe and sinewy. His ha- bitual gravity of manner was relieved by flashes of keen humor. His dark eyes were at once soft and brilliant. With an al- most womanly delicacy, he had a commanding dignity of manner. He was invariably courteous, kind, and humane, and his character was of spot- less purity. He was the perfect ideal of a true knight and Christian gentleman. The accompany- ing illustration represents Marion's grave. His biography has been written by his old companion- in-arms. Gen. Horry, assisted- by the eccentric Mason Weems (Baltimore, 1815 ; new ed., Philadel- phia, 1824) ; also by W. D. James (Charleston, 1821) ; and by William Gilmore Simms (New York, 1844). See also " Moultrie's Memoirs " (New York, 1802) ; " Henry Lee's Memoirs " (Philadelphia, 1812) ; "Drayton's Memoirs " (Charleston, 1821) ; and "Tarieton's History of the Campaigns of 1780 and 1781 " (London, 1797).

MARISCAL, Ignacio, b. in Oajaca, Mexico, 5 July, 1829. He studied in his native city, and practised law in the city of Mexi- co, where he was admitted to the bar of the supreme court in December, 1849. Inl850 here- turned to Oajaca, and was appointed solicitor - general of that state, in which capacity he remained until March, 1853. when the revolution that placed Santa-An- na in power ex- pelled him as a Liberal from his native city. Then he went again to the city of Mexico, where he prac- tised his profession. In 1856 he was elected a member of the National congress that made the constitution of 1857, which is now in force in Mexi- co. During 1859 he was supernumerary judge of the supreme court of Oajaca. In 1860 he was Fed- eral judge for the circuit of the three states of Vera Cruz, Puebla, and Oajaca. In 1861-'2 he was representative for Oajaca in congress. Early in 1861 he had been appointed counsellor of the gov- ernment for the execution of the laws regarding the alienation of property. At the end of 1862 he was appointed by President Juarez, according to extraordinary powers from congress, supernumerary judge ad interim of the supreme court of the re- public. At the beginning of 1863 he left the su- preme court, being appointed assistant secretary of state ad interim by Don Juan Antonio de la Fuente, then the secretary. Mr. Mariscal went in this capacity, with President Juarez and his cabinet, to San Luis Potosi, in May of that year, on the ap- proach of the French. In August he resigned his temporary office, and came to the United States as secretary of the Mexican legation, remaining in Washington until October. 1867, when he was ac- credited as charge d'affaires ad interim. In the spring of 1868 he went to Mexico, having been ap- pointed by President Juarez minister of justice. Shortly afterward he was elected representative to congress, and later judge of the supreme court, which post he held until July of the same year, when President Juarez appointed him secretary of justice and of public instruction. Having studied English jurisprudence during his stay in the Unit- ed States, he advocated in Mexico the establish- ment of criminal juries, and succeeded in securing it. Mr. Mariscal was appointed in June, 1869, Mexican minister to the United States, and re- mained as such until May, 1871, when he went home to fill the appointment of secretary of for- eign affairs. He returned to Washington in July.