# The Minute Boys of South Carolina

Author: Otis, James, 1848-1912; Kennedy, J. W. [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76504

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Minute+Boys+of+South+Carolina+Otis&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

The king’s forces laid siege to Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, on the very day that Gabriel Marion was sixteen years old, and when I was come to the same age the Continental forces made their first sortie, as I remember full well because of the fact that General Moultre’s brother was then killed. Thus it will be seen that Gabriel was my senior only by fifteen days, for it must be fresh in the minds of every one that Sir Henry Clinton opened fire on Charleston the fifth day of April, in the year of grace 1780; that the Americans made their first sortie on the twentieth; that on the sixth day of May the besiegers completed their third parallel, and on the twelfth the city was i...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-minute-boys-of-south-carolina-76504/chapters/19/index.md)