The sprawling epic Blood on the Marsh chronicles the legendary adventures of: General Lachlan McIntosh, who held important commands during the American Revolution; Flora MacDonald, who witnessed both the Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the American Revolution; Roderick "Rory" McIntosh, a colorful character in the settlement of Darien and in the American Revolution; Anne Mackintosh, who was called "Colonel Anne" when she rallied the clan for Bonnie Prince Charlie in the Rising of 1745; Colonel John McIntosh, who was nicknamed "Come and Take It" for his defiant defense of the fort at Sunbury during the American Revolution; John Mackintosh Mor, leader of the Scots Highlanders who settled Darien, Georgia, and fought in the struggle for the colonial American southern frontier; Aeneas the 22nd Chief of Clan Mackintosh, who served in a ranger troop on the colonial American southern frontier and was caught up in the Jacobite Rising of 1745 in Scotland; Aeneas the 23nd Chief of Clan Mackintosh, who served in the British 71st Regiment during the American Revolution; Brigadier William McIntosh of Borlum, who led a Jacobite army in the Rising of 1715; Sergeant Allen McDonald of Marion's Brigade in the American Revolution; Alexander McDonald, who served in the regiment at Frederica on the colonial American southern frontier, and his son Alexander McDonald, who served in the 2nd South Carolina Regiment during the American Revolution.
About the Author: Daniel McDonald Johnson is a former newspaper reporter, photographer and editor. He wrote entries on Allendale County, the town of Allendale and the town of Fairfax for The South Carolina Encyclopedia, University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Please visit his Web site at danielmcdonaldjohn son.com. Write him at P.O. Box 747, Allendale, SC 29810, or email danielmcdonaldjohnson@gmail.com His books are available in print and on Kindle from Amazon.com and other retail outlets. In 2012, he published Brier Creek, a guide to the history and legend of a Revolutionary War battlefield and related sites near the Savannah River. A revised, illustrated edition of the Brier Creek guidebook is coming soon. Realizing that Blood on the Marsh contains too many pages for most people to read, he extracted a shorter, more focused book from it. Mr. McIntosh's Family, published in 2014, tells about the Mackintosh clan and the McIntosh family in the Jacobite Risings, the settlement of Darien, Georgia, and the struggle for the colonial American southern frontier. A book depicting the intertwining lives of General Lachlan McIntosh of Georgia and Captain Aeneas Mackintosh of Scotland during the American Revolution is in the planning stage.