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.